9780262037808-0262037807-Resonant Games: Design Principles for Learning Games that Connect Hearts, Minds, and the Everyday (The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning)

Resonant Games: Design Principles for Learning Games that Connect Hearts, Minds, and the Everyday (The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning)

ISBN-13: 9780262037808
ISBN-10: 0262037807
Author: Jason Haas, Eric Klopfer, Scot Osterweil, Louisa Rosenheck
Publication date: 2018
Publisher: The MIT Press
Format: Hardcover 272 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780262037808
ISBN-10: 0262037807
Author: Jason Haas, Eric Klopfer, Scot Osterweil, Louisa Rosenheck
Publication date: 2018
Publisher: The MIT Press
Format: Hardcover 272 pages

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Resonant Games: Design Principles for Learning Games that Connect Hearts, Minds, and the Everyday (The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning) (ISBN-13: 9780262037808 and ISBN-10: 0262037807), written by authors Jason Haas, Eric Klopfer, Scot Osterweil, Louisa Rosenheck, was published by The MIT Press in 2018. With an overall rating of 3.5 stars, it's a notable title among other Games & Strategy Guides books. You can easily purchase or rent Resonant Games: Design Principles for Learning Games that Connect Hearts, Minds, and the Everyday (The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning) (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Games & Strategy Guides books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $2.3.

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Principles for designing educational games that integrate content and play and create learning experiences connecting to many areas of learners' lives.

Too often educational videogames are narrowly focused on specific learning outcomes dictated by school curricula and fail to engage young learners. This book suggests another approach, offering a guide to designing games that integrates content and play and creates learning experiences that connect to many areas of learners' lives. These games are not gamified workbooks but are embedded in a long-form experience of exploration, discovery, and collaboration that takes into consideration the learning environment. Resonant Games describes twenty essential principles for designing games that offer this kind of deeper learning experience, presenting them in connection with five games or collections of games developed at MIT's educational game research lab, the Education Arcade.

Each of the games―which range from Vanished, an alternate reality game for middle schoolers promoting STEM careers, to Ubiquitous Bio, a series of casual mobile games for high school biology students―has a different story, but all spring from these fundamental assumptions: honor the whole learner, as a full human being, not an empty vessel awaiting a fill-up; honor the sociality of learning and play; honor a deep connection between the content and the game; and honor the learning context―most often the public school classroom, but also beyond the classroom.

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