I am an assistant professor. And MA, communication studies. PhD, and our Center for Media and Social Impact. In 2004 I co-founded Games for Change. And today I continue to build the field of social issue games. Subsequently, I was a program officer at the MacArthur Foundation. In their portfolio on Digital Media and Learning.

Explores and comments on everyday practices of producing and consuming texts of whatever kind in meatspace and cyberspace. Thursday, February 08, 2018. Rest in peace, John Perry Barlow. You were truly special and your wisdom.

Play to Learn and Learn to Play. In a high school English class, start here. To find out how to turn your class into an alternate reality game, start here. For the first post and for an overview of the. How Video Games Teach how to Teach. If you want to .

Thursday, May 21, 2015. Thursday, November 20, 2014. EdTechBridge in Action - Software testing for BrainPop. A few weeks back, Katya asked if BrainPOP could do some software testing with my game design students as well as. Katya, Scott, and Will came to visit two of my classes yesterday. Katya is the lead on user testing, Scott is a project manager for in house games developed by BrainPOP and Will is one of the game designers.

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