Videogames in Education
I’m interested in the use of games and play in education, from the design and creation of games to the use of games to teach concepts in the classroom. This video is about the latter and features interviews with influential people like Henry Jenkins and James Paul Gee. Even though it’s ancient by blog/videogame/internet standards (it’s really just a couple years old), it still features relevant discussion. There is some filler including a section that seems like a plug for a World War 2 simulation and the company that created it, but the interviews, especially with Gee and Jenkins, are really great. Learning through play seems to be a main point, and my extension of that argument is to reorient many of the things we do towards play.
