Video games and the future of learning

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 105-111

  Shaffer, David Williamson ^a,b,c   Squire, Kurt R ^a,b,c   Halverson, Richard ^a,b,c   Gee, James P ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Games and Professional Practice Simulations (GAPPS) Research Group   (United States)

^c Department of Educational Psychology ^*

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EID: 27544500148     PISSN: 00317217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003172170508700205     Document Type: Review

References (27)

1. Constance A. Steinkuehler, "Emergent Play," paper presented at the State of Play Conference, New York University Law School, New York City, October 2004.
2. Kurt R. Squire, "Game Cultures, School Cultures," Innovate, in press.
3. As Julian Dibbell, a journalist for Wired and Rolling Stone, has shown, it is possible to make a better living by trading online currencies than by working as a freelance journalist!
4. Constance A. Steinkuehler, "Learning in Massively Multiplayer Online Games," in Yasmin Kafai et al., eds., Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference of the Learning Sciences (Mahwah, N.J.: Erlbaum, 2004), pp. 521-28.
5. Kurt R. Squire and Levi Giovanetto, "The Higher Education of Gaming," eLearning, in press.
6. Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger, Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991).
7. David Williamson Shaffer, "Epistemic Frames and Islands of Expertise: Learning from Infusion Experiences," in Kafai et al., pp. 473-80.
8. The commercial game retains about 15% of what was in the Army's original simulation. For more on this game as a learning environment, see James P. Gee, "What Will a State of the Art Video Game Look Like?," Innovate, in press.
9. Manual for Full Spectrum Warrior (Los Angeles: Pandemic Studios, 2004), p. 2.
10. David Williamson Shaffer, "Epistemic Games," Innovate, in press.
11. David Williamson Shaffer, "Pedagogical Praxis: The Professions as Models for Postindustrial Education," Teachers College Record, July 2004, pp. 1401-21.
12. Kelly L. Beckett and David Williamson Shaffer, "Augmented by Reality: The Pedagogical Praxis of Urban Planning as a Pathway to Ecological Thinking," Journal of Educational Computing Research, in press;
13. and Shaffer, "Epistemic Games."
14. Roger C. Schank, Virtual Learning: A Revolutionary Approach to Building a Highly Skilled Work Force (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1997).
15. Roger C. Schank et al., "The Design of Goal-Based Scenarios," Journal of the Learning Sciences, vol. 3, 1994, pp. 305-45;
16. and A. S. Gordon, "Authoring Branching Storylines for Training Applications," in Kafai et al., pp. 230-38.
17. Kurt R. Squire, "Game-Based Learning: Present and Future State of the Field," e-Learning Consortium, an X-Learn Perspective Paper, Masie Center, February 2005, available at www.masie.com/xlearn/game-based_ learning.pdf, 2005.
18. Richard Halverson, "Systems of Practice: How Leaders Use Artifacts to Create Professional Community in Schools," Education Policy Analysis Archives, vol. 11, 2003, p. 37;
19. and Richard Halverson, idem, "Accessing, Documenting and Communicating Practical Wisdom: The Phronesis of School Leadership Practice," American Journal of Education, vol. 111, 2004, pp. 90-121.
20. Richard Halverson and Yeonjai Rah, "Representing Leadership for Social Justice: The Case of Franklin School," Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, Spring 2005.
21. Gina Svarovsky and David Williamson Shaffer, "SodaConstructing Knowledge Through Exploratoids," Journal of Research in Science Teaching, in press.
22. Shaffer, "Pedagogical Praxis."
23. David Williamson Shaffer, "When Computer-Supported Collaboration Means Computer-Supported Competition: Professional Mediation as a Model for Collaborative Learning," Journal of Interactive Learning Research, vol. 15, 2004, pp. 101-15.
24. David Williamson Shaffer, "Learning Mathematics Through Design: The Anatomy of Escher's World," Journal of Mathematical Behavior, vol. 16, 1997, pp. 95-112.
25. Kurt R. Squire and Henry Jenkins, "Harnessing the Power of Games in Education," Insight, vol. 3, 2004, pp. 5-33.
26. Kurt R. Squire and Henry Jenkins, "Harnessing the Power of Games in Education," Insight, vol. 3, 2004, pp. 5-33. Ibid.
27. Kurt R. Squire, "Sid Meier's Civilization III," Simulations and Gaming, vol. 35, 2004, pp. 135-40.