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His most recent book \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/FREEPLAY-Video-Guide-Maximum-Euphoric/dp/147938643X/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1398114780&sr=8-4&keywords=freeplay\">FREEPLAY: A Video Game Guide To Maximum Euphoric Bliss\u003c/a>, considers how the games we play in our youth shape our adult lives.","avatar":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/4b111ea254a2d6423af927dd263ccb39?s=600&d=blank&r=g","twitter":"jordosh","facebook":null,"instagram":null,"linkedin":null,"sites":[{"site":"mindshift","roles":["contributor"]}],"headData":{"title":"Jordan Shapiro | KQED","description":null,"ogImgSrc":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/4b111ea254a2d6423af927dd263ccb39?s=600&d=blank&r=g","twImgSrc":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/4b111ea254a2d6423af927dd263ccb39?s=600&d=blank&r=g"},"isLoading":false,"link":"/author/jordosh"}},"breakingNewsReducer":{},"campaignFinanceReducer":{},"firebase":{"requesting":{},"requested":{},"timestamps":{},"data":{},"ordered":{},"auth":{"isLoaded":false,"isEmpty":true},"authError":null,"profile":{"isLoaded":false,"isEmpty":true},"listeners":{"byId":{},"allIds":[]},"isInitializing":false,"errors":[]},"navBarReducer":{"navBarId":"home","fullView":true,"showPlayer":false},"navMenuReducer":{"menus":[{"key":"menu1","items":[{"name":"News","link":"/","type":"title"},{"name":"Politics","link":"/politics"},{"name":"Science","link":"/science"},{"name":"Education","link":"/educationnews"},{"name":"Housing","link":"/housing"},{"name":"Immigration","link":"/immigration"},{"name":"Criminal Justice","link":"/criminaljustice"},{"name":"Silicon Valley","link":"/siliconvalley"},{"name":"Forum","link":"/forum"},{"name":"The California Report","link":"/californiareport"}]},{"key":"menu2","items":[{"name":"Arts & Culture","link":"/arts","type":"title"},{"name":"Critics’ Picks","link":"/thedolist"},{"name":"Cultural Commentary","link":"/artscommentary"},{"name":"Food & Drink","link":"/food"},{"name":"Bay Area Hip-Hop","link":"/bayareahiphop"},{"name":"Rebel Girls","link":"/rebelgirls"},{"name":"Arts Video","link":"/artsvideos"}]},{"key":"menu3","items":[{"name":"Podcasts","link":"/podcasts","type":"title"},{"name":"Bay Curious","link":"/podcasts/baycurious"},{"name":"Rightnowish","link":"/podcasts/rightnowish"},{"name":"The Bay","link":"/podcasts/thebay"},{"name":"On Our Watch","link":"/podcasts/onourwatch"},{"name":"Mindshift","link":"/podcasts/mindshift"},{"name":"Consider This","link":"/podcasts/considerthis"},{"name":"Political Breakdown","link":"/podcasts/politicalbreakdown"}]},{"key":"menu4","items":[{"name":"Live Radio","link":"/radio","type":"title"},{"name":"TV","link":"/tv","type":"title"},{"name":"Events","link":"/events","type":"title"},{"name":"For Educators","link":"/education","type":"title"},{"name":"Support KQED","link":"/support","type":"title"},{"name":"About","link":"/about","type":"title"},{"name":"Help Center","link":"https://kqed-helpcenter.kqed.org/s","type":"title"}]}]},"pagesReducer":{},"postsReducer":{"stream_live":{"type":"live","id":"stream_live","audioUrl":"https://streams.kqed.org/kqedradio","title":"Live Stream","excerpt":"Live Stream information currently unavailable.","link":"/radio","featImg":"","label":{"name":"KQED Live","link":"/"}},"stream_kqedNewscast":{"type":"posts","id":"stream_kqedNewscast","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/newscast.mp3?_=1","title":"KQED Newscast","featImg":"","label":{"name":"88.5 FM","link":"/"}},"mindshift_43273":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_43273","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"43273","score":null,"sort":[1451558266000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"how-tapping-into-a-youths-identity-can-excite-an-interest-in-learning","title":"How Tapping Into a Youth's Identity Can Excite an Interest in Learning","publishDate":1451558266,"format":"standard","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cem>Excerpted from the book \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9780745660707\">Participatory Culture in a Networked Era: A Conversation on Youth, Learning, Commerce and Politics\u003c/a>\" by Henry Jenkins, Mizuko (Mimi) Ito and danah boyd, published by Polity. The following is in Chapter 4, \"Learning and Literacy.\"\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cstrong>What Interests Are Valued?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cstrong>Mimi:\u003c/strong> Only a limited number of interests and identities are validated within schools and peer culture, and either you happen to be one of those kids whose interests are already connected or you’re one of those kids who isn’t embraced by the school culture, socially, academically, or culturally. There’s a strong cultural and institutional bias in many schools that validates interests like football or basketball, specific academic subjects, and extracurriculars such as chess or debate. Even putting aside something as challenging as pro-ana, it’s hard for a sci-fi fan or a skater to find a validated place in the school culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Katie Salen has written about changing the culture of the school to validate these gamer and geek identities in the Quest to Learn (Q2L) middle school (Salen et al. 2011). Q2L is a public middle school in Manhattan, founded in 2009, which now incorporates grades 6 to 12. Much of the school curriculum includes the input of game designers, and it centers on a game-based pedagogy and problem-solving. What you see in Q2L is a proliferation not just of the empowered geek identity but also kids starting a lot of after-school clubs that are interesting sites of overlap between school, peer, and interest culture. So there’ll be a Minecraft club or a video-making club and other interests that aren’t fully compatible with the curriculum but are still brought into the schools. This isn’t unique to Q2L. Teachers and schools around the country and elsewhere in the world support youth in organizing clubs and in extracurricular and other interest-driven enrichment activities. Given limitations in resources and time, it’s often difficult for schools to embrace a really wide range of interests, which is the constant underlying challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cstrong>Henry:\u003c/strong> For example, libraries are embracing comics as a way of engaging with young readers and, in some cases, to validate the expertise they already possess, their mastery over domains of knowledge that have not historically been recognized at school. We used to see a student smuggle a comic inside her textbook and have it confiscated by the teacher; now, we see whole library shelves stocked with graphic novels. In our New Media Literacies work, we have an activity where we ask students to map their identities as readers, to identify the many different things they read and write and the roles they play in their lives – from menus and cereal boxes to magazines and websites (Jenkins, Reilly, and Mehta, 2013). We’ve had any number of students complete the activity and come to the realization that, while schools have long classified them as not very good readers, they read all the time. Reading is a key part of their lives, but they simply don’t engage in the kinds of reading that schools value. They don’t read the right things or in the right way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">I recall an experience I had in the classroom at the start of my teaching career that still haunts me. I had a student who was performing at a C level and never said anything in class. One day, we started talking about Batman, and he came alive, making many contributions, dominating the discussion. For a solid hour, he got to be the expert and other students were asking him questions. He came to my office afterwards, still aglow, and we talked for another hour or more. This was an incredible, intense moment, where his interests were being valued. Then, two of my literature department colleagues walked down the hall, heard what we were discussing, stuck their head into my office, and said, “What are you doing talking about Batman? This is a literature department!” They were joking with me, but the student’s face turned ashen. He stopped talking almost instantly; he wandered away and he said nothing else in the class for the rest of the term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">So, bringing such knowledge into the classroom can be deeply empowering. But this is also an incredibly vulnerable moment, when the slightest negative message will be heard loudly. Schools often give this message – that what matters to young people doesn’t matter in school. As they do so, they also signal the opposite – that what matters in school doesn’t have any meaning in the rest of your life. We are all about finding those connected learning moments, but we also have to acknowledge how precarious they can be. If students are putting their faith in the system, if they are seeking acknowledgment, and we let them down, that can be devastating. Above all, do no harm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cstrong>danah:\u003c/strong> It’s frustrating when youth practices are dismissed by adults because they don’t conform to normative understandings of learning. On the flip side, I also meet a lot of young people who have been socialized into a world where any form of adult validation is viewed as negative. Sometimes, this perspective is shaped by broader communities. More often, I run into situations where parents and other family members teach young people not to trust non-family members, including teachers. I recognize how validation by people in power can be quite beneficial for some youth, but I don’t think we should take this as a given. It does create new questions and challenges, such as how should we think about diverse mechanisms of validation?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9780745660707\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-43276\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-43276\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/12/Participatory-Culture-e1451557036146.jpg\" alt=\"Participatory Culture\" width=\"250\" height=\"382\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cstrong>Mimi:\u003c/strong> While many youth cultures have an oppositional stance to adults, there’s generally adult leadership even in the most oppositional ones. I would challenge us to think of any subculture that doesn’t have adult heroes and leaders involved in it, which is why adults do have a role to play. I’ve seen educators who are authentically steeped in the affinity group do this well. It’s interesting talking to some of the youth at YOUmedia, a media-production-centered learning lab at the Harold Washington Library in downtown Chicago. The grown-up mentors in interest areas such as spoken word, beat-making, and gaming are not authority figures institutionally in the way that teachers are, but they’re people who embody that interest-driven identity, so they have a very different relationship to their kids. Brother Mike, who was the lead mentor for YOUMedia Chicago, is a great example of a poet and a hiphop artist who had cultural capital with youth. After his tragic death in 2014, Charles Ashby Lewis described him at the memorial service as “a pied piper with dreadlocks.” He was known for his signature call and response, where he would say “Power to the people!” and the kids would respond “Right on!” Even teens with a troubled relationship to teachers and education would take advice from Brother Mike about everything ranging from schooling and their writing. Some kids talk about how it’s the first time that they were able to be in a space like a library and not be cynical (Larson et al. 2013).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">We need translation zones where there’s sharing of power between interest-driven, peer-driven, and institution-driven imperatives. The Chicago YOUmedia learning lab, as well as others that are opening up around the country, are examples of experiments in this vein. These are the sites where we see mentors working with young people who have interests such as hip-hop, fashion, or spoken word, and they connect those interests to educational and career opportunity. Taking youth interests and participatory cultures and trying to put them entirely in the classroom is challenging because the institutional imperatives are going to win within the classroom walls. We don’t talk about the school as a fully connected learning environment because, most of the time, schools aren’t able to focus on this kind of more peer-driven, production-oriented activity that has relevance and visibility beyond the classroom walls. Schools are one important piece of young people’s learning ecology, but we have to take the social peer engagement and the diverse interests of kids seriously. Ideally we see schools embracing peer learning and diverse interests within the classroom, as well as connecting to the learning in the wider world. If we can find ways to broker the peace between the cultures of education, entertainment, and youth peer engagement, new media and networked culture can have a huge role to play in expanding these opportunities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cem>Henry Jenkins is Provost Professor of Communication, Journalism, Cinematic Arts, and Education at the University of Southern California. Mizuko Ito is Professor in Residence and MacArthur Foundation chair in Digital Media and Learning, University of California, Irvine. danah boyd is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, the Founder of Data & Society, and a Visiting Professor at New York University.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Thinking beyond the traditional curriculum can help excite kids who might otherwise be overlooked. 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The following is in Chapter 4, \"Learning and Literacy.\"\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cstrong>What Interests Are Valued?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cstrong>Mimi:\u003c/strong> Only a limited number of interests and identities are validated within schools and peer culture, and either you happen to be one of those kids whose interests are already connected or you’re one of those kids who isn’t embraced by the school culture, socially, academically, or culturally. There’s a strong cultural and institutional bias in many schools that validates interests like football or basketball, specific academic subjects, and extracurriculars such as chess or debate. Even putting aside something as challenging as pro-ana, it’s hard for a sci-fi fan or a skater to find a validated place in the school culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Katie Salen has written about changing the culture of the school to validate these gamer and geek identities in the Quest to Learn (Q2L) middle school (Salen et al. 2011). Q2L is a public middle school in Manhattan, founded in 2009, which now incorporates grades 6 to 12. Much of the school curriculum includes the input of game designers, and it centers on a game-based pedagogy and problem-solving. What you see in Q2L is a proliferation not just of the empowered geek identity but also kids starting a lot of after-school clubs that are interesting sites of overlap between school, peer, and interest culture. So there’ll be a Minecraft club or a video-making club and other interests that aren’t fully compatible with the curriculum but are still brought into the schools. This isn’t unique to Q2L. Teachers and schools around the country and elsewhere in the world support youth in organizing clubs and in extracurricular and other interest-driven enrichment activities. Given limitations in resources and time, it’s often difficult for schools to embrace a really wide range of interests, which is the constant underlying challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cstrong>Henry:\u003c/strong> For example, libraries are embracing comics as a way of engaging with young readers and, in some cases, to validate the expertise they already possess, their mastery over domains of knowledge that have not historically been recognized at school. We used to see a student smuggle a comic inside her textbook and have it confiscated by the teacher; now, we see whole library shelves stocked with graphic novels. In our New Media Literacies work, we have an activity where we ask students to map their identities as readers, to identify the many different things they read and write and the roles they play in their lives – from menus and cereal boxes to magazines and websites (Jenkins, Reilly, and Mehta, 2013). We’ve had any number of students complete the activity and come to the realization that, while schools have long classified them as not very good readers, they read all the time. Reading is a key part of their lives, but they simply don’t engage in the kinds of reading that schools value. They don’t read the right things or in the right way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">I recall an experience I had in the classroom at the start of my teaching career that still haunts me. I had a student who was performing at a C level and never said anything in class. One day, we started talking about Batman, and he came alive, making many contributions, dominating the discussion. For a solid hour, he got to be the expert and other students were asking him questions. He came to my office afterwards, still aglow, and we talked for another hour or more. This was an incredible, intense moment, where his interests were being valued. Then, two of my literature department colleagues walked down the hall, heard what we were discussing, stuck their head into my office, and said, “What are you doing talking about Batman? This is a literature department!” They were joking with me, but the student’s face turned ashen. He stopped talking almost instantly; he wandered away and he said nothing else in the class for the rest of the term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">So, bringing such knowledge into the classroom can be deeply empowering. But this is also an incredibly vulnerable moment, when the slightest negative message will be heard loudly. Schools often give this message – that what matters to young people doesn’t matter in school. As they do so, they also signal the opposite – that what matters in school doesn’t have any meaning in the rest of your life. We are all about finding those connected learning moments, but we also have to acknowledge how precarious they can be. If students are putting their faith in the system, if they are seeking acknowledgment, and we let them down, that can be devastating. Above all, do no harm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cstrong>danah:\u003c/strong> It’s frustrating when youth practices are dismissed by adults because they don’t conform to normative understandings of learning. On the flip side, I also meet a lot of young people who have been socialized into a world where any form of adult validation is viewed as negative. Sometimes, this perspective is shaped by broader communities. More often, I run into situations where parents and other family members teach young people not to trust non-family members, including teachers. I recognize how validation by people in power can be quite beneficial for some youth, but I don’t think we should take this as a given. It does create new questions and challenges, such as how should we think about diverse mechanisms of validation?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9780745660707\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-43276\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-43276\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/12/Participatory-Culture-e1451557036146.jpg\" alt=\"Participatory Culture\" width=\"250\" height=\"382\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cstrong>Mimi:\u003c/strong> While many youth cultures have an oppositional stance to adults, there’s generally adult leadership even in the most oppositional ones. I would challenge us to think of any subculture that doesn’t have adult heroes and leaders involved in it, which is why adults do have a role to play. I’ve seen educators who are authentically steeped in the affinity group do this well. It’s interesting talking to some of the youth at YOUmedia, a media-production-centered learning lab at the Harold Washington Library in downtown Chicago. The grown-up mentors in interest areas such as spoken word, beat-making, and gaming are not authority figures institutionally in the way that teachers are, but they’re people who embody that interest-driven identity, so they have a very different relationship to their kids. Brother Mike, who was the lead mentor for YOUMedia Chicago, is a great example of a poet and a hiphop artist who had cultural capital with youth. After his tragic death in 2014, Charles Ashby Lewis described him at the memorial service as “a pied piper with dreadlocks.” He was known for his signature call and response, where he would say “Power to the people!” and the kids would respond “Right on!” Even teens with a troubled relationship to teachers and education would take advice from Brother Mike about everything ranging from schooling and their writing. Some kids talk about how it’s the first time that they were able to be in a space like a library and not be cynical (Larson et al. 2013).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">We need translation zones where there’s sharing of power between interest-driven, peer-driven, and institution-driven imperatives. The Chicago YOUmedia learning lab, as well as others that are opening up around the country, are examples of experiments in this vein. These are the sites where we see mentors working with young people who have interests such as hip-hop, fashion, or spoken word, and they connect those interests to educational and career opportunity. Taking youth interests and participatory cultures and trying to put them entirely in the classroom is challenging because the institutional imperatives are going to win within the classroom walls. 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It Works","publishDate":1439472969,"format":"standard","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>By Alexandria Neason\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://hechingerreport.org/\">The Hechinger Report\u003c/a>\u003cem>, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Read more about \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://hechingerreport.org/special-reports/blended-learning/\">\u003cem>technology in the classroom\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NEW YORK — One morning, just before classes at New York City’s \u003ca href=\"http://q2l.org/\">Quest to Learn\u003c/a> Middle School broke for lunch, Etai Kurtzman found himself transformed into a lemon tree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a warm day in late April, and his chatty sixth-grade class had been corralled from a narrow hallway into a classroom at the end of a short hall. Etai, tall and lanky, lugged a gray backpack to a desk that had been pushed up against a wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each student had been cast for a role-playing game either as a honeybee sent out from the hive or as a plant. In a flurry of organized chaos, the students simulated the pollination process: student honey bees, wearing pipe-cleaner antennae, approached classmates pretending to be plants and received small, colored building blocks. When a plant ran out of blocks, it meant their flowers had been pollinated. But the bees had to be careful: some of the plants randomly gave them white blocks, which represented pesticides and caused the bees to die.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their teacher, Kate Selkirk, was using this game as a starting point for an eight-week unit on math concepts — data analysis and graphing, proportions, probability and slope. But what does a beehive or a lemon tree have to do with any of that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The designers behind Quest to Learn believe that student engagement is so significantly enhanced by narrative role-play, analog games and digital games that every subject — from health to math — begins or ends with a game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"GlWxhCUW0jgcNTQbOsMGKovi0xHKoV78\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lesson about power and privilege, for example, might begin with a card game in which some players are deliberately and arbitrarily more disadvantaged than others. This type of simulation creates real empathy, which helps to make abstract concepts more concrete — and boosts engagement as a result.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while blended learning — a mix of teacher-led and computerized instruction — is proliferating across the country, schools that wholeheartedly embrace games-based learning remain rare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a very small number if schools that really try to redesign the school around games-based learning,” said Justin Leites, vice-president of Amplify Learning, a company that makes digital education games. One of the biggest challenges, he says, is bringing games into schools that are bogged down by accountability demands—often ones that rely heavily on standardized testing. Attempts to use games as assessments ruin the playful experiences that make them an effective learning tool, he said. And designing good games is no easy task.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very hard to design a good game of any sort,” he said. “And a really good learning experience, that’s even harder.” The training teachers need to design strong games for the classroom takes time and money—a hard sell at schools strapped for cash and resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this type of classroom, while unusual, makes perfect sense to Etai and his classmates. At the core of gaming is the concept of a challenge, and a player’s journey to meet it. That makes perfect sense inside a school building, Etai told me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not competitive,” he said. “It’s more about ‘let’s figure it out.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_41618\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-41618\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/GamesStudent-173-e1439445468256.jpg\" alt=\"Etai Kurtzman, 12, at Luna Park in Coney Island in Brooklyn, NY May 28, 2015. The group of students from Quest to Learn School took the day trip to Coney Island to analyze user experience on games and rides at Luna Park as part of their late-spring school curriculum. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Etai Kurtzman, 12, at Luna Park in Coney Island in Brooklyn, NY May 28, 2015. The group of students from Quest to Learn School took the day trip to Coney Island to analyze user experience on games and rides at Luna Park as part of their late-spring school curriculum. \u003ccite>(Kevin Hagen for The Hechinger Report)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Quest to Learn is housed in the Bayard Rustin Educational Complex, a massive brick fortress that is home to six schools on West 18th Street in Chelsea. The overlapping schedules of each school create a steady echo of activity in the hallways: a couple of teens who showed up late for school explaining themselves to a school safety officer, teachers ushering wayward kids into classrooms, the sharp beeping of the heavy service elevators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On that day in late April, the new unit in Etai’s “Codeworlds” math class was built around a narrative about a restless honey bee named Buzz, who leaves the monotony of the hive in search of real fun. The obvious metaphor for bored kids stuck inside a stuffy school building all day immediately seemed to resonate with the class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “roll out,” as it’s known in Quest lingo, was intended to get the class invested in the plight of Buzz. The actual math concepts would be delivered as the class returned again and again to this character.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Etai’s old school, P.S. 41 in Greenwich Village, these concepts would likely have been taught through daily lessons and note-taking. There were no games or role-playing. There were workbooks and worksheets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I definitely learned a lot, but it was not as fun, not as interesting,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mor Armony-Kurtzman, Etai’s mother, said he rarely talked about school while at P.S. 41. “I expected that when he got to middle school, we’d start hearing [even] less about school,” she said. “It’s the exact opposite.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_41619\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-41619\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/GamesStudent-100-e1439445680375.jpg\" alt=\"Etai Kurtzman, 12, and Terrell Gantt, 12, on a ride at Luna Park in Coney Island in Brooklyn, NY May 28, 2015. The group of students from Quest to Learn School took the day trip to Coney Island to analyze user experience on games and rides at Luna Park as part of their late-spring school curriculum. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Etai Kurtzman, 12, and Terrell Gantt, 12, on a ride at Luna Park in Coney Island in Brooklyn, NY May 28, 2015. The group of students from Quest to Learn School took the day trip to Coney Island to analyze user experience on games and rides at Luna Park as part of their late-spring school curriculum. \u003ccite>(Kevin Hagen for The Hechinger Report)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When I visited his class again, during lunch one day early in May, Etai munched on mini bagels slathered in cream cheese while he taught me to play a dice game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The game, called Skunk, was a primer for a lesson in probability. Students roll dice to earn points. You can roll the dice as many times as you want through each of five rounds, but if you roll a one on either die, you earn no points. And a roll of double ones erases all your points. When I asked Etai what the purpose was, he said that he was supposed to learn about the relationship between choice and chance. These two concepts later helped him understand how calculating probability could help him make a decision about whether or not to take a risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Etai, it is easy to find places in his life outside school where probability matters. In games he plays for fun, like Monopoly and another board game called Settlers of Catan, players make strategic decisions that can be more expertly executed if they understand the probability of rolling a particular combination of numbers on the dice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Settlers of Catan, Etai explained, players choose which parts of an imaginary new world to settle. Different types of terrain come paired with different numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In that game, you strategize where you place pieces based on the likelihood of numbers you’ll roll,” he said. “I never took into account the number of choices, the possibilities when rolling the dice. I thought the numbers were there just because. Now I know.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And suddenly, the bee role-playing game that he had participated in weeks earlier also made sense. “I realized that the activity actually had something to do with probability, because there were only three white blocks,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This sort of indirect entry into a Common Core standard — in which students are supposed to realize the \u003cem>usefulness\u003c/em> of a concept before they learn how to use it — is at the root of all teaching instruction at Quest, according to Rebecca Rufo-Tepper, the director of professional development for the Institute of Play, which promotes gaming in schools and designed Quest to Learn. The old mantra that demands kids work before they play doesn’t apply. Here, playing enables the learning. But the two cannot exist in isolation. Traditional learning must still happen to help students master standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A game can’t do everything, and that’s a mistake we often see,” said Rufo-Tepper. “The game has a very specific role.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Skunk, that role was to get kids thinking about how and when they can use choice to beat chance. Only then were the kids ready — eager, even — to learn how to mathematically calculate the likelihood of rolling any particular combination on the dice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The games demonstrate to the kids why the skills they’ll soon learn matter beyond tests and grades. Teachers then move on to use more traditional, straightforward teaching practices. Warm-up and group activities and quizzes appear regularly in Etai’s class, sometimes to help settle the kids after a rowdy lunch period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_41621\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-41621\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/GamesStudent-1194-e1439446077925.jpg\" alt=\"Students fill out games analysis worksheets at the Roll-A-Ball game during a trip to Coney Island in Brooklyn, NY May 28, 2015. The group of students from Quest to Learn School took the day trip to Coney Island to analyze user experience on games and rides at Luna Park as part of their late-spring school curriculum. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students fill out games analysis worksheets at the Roll-A-Ball game during a trip to Coney Island in Brooklyn, NY May 28, 2015. The group of students from Quest to Learn School took the day trip to Coney Island to analyze user experience on games and rides at Luna Park as part of their late-spring school curriculum. \u003ccite>(Kevin Hagen for The Hechinger Report )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the sticky May humidity, Selkirk wrote definitions on the whiteboard with a squeaky black marker while the class fidgeted and copied them down. Video lessons, worksheets and group work followed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are, after all, sixth-graders. “There is a routine, a regular structure,” Selkirk said. “You can’t abandon traditional teaching practices. It’s not ‘Play a game and you’re never going to have to demonstrate that you’ve learned anything.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After playing Skunk, the kids had two days of more straightforward math lessons. They charted all the potential combinations they could roll on two dice to help them visualize how probable it was to roll any particular combination. They practiced expressing probability in fractions, in their notebooks and on worksheets. That learning was then reinforced with yet another game, called Caterpillar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Caterpillar, students used their knowledge of how likely it is to roll a specific dice combination to place blocks, called mushrooms, on a plastic game board. Etai’s favorite parts of this game? Doing the math quickly. Strategizing. And winning as a result.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then it was time for the quiz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Etai peered at the screen of a silver MacBook laptop, his notebook open on the desk next to him. He moved quickly through the multiple-choice questions, including one very confusing-looking chart full of fractions; he told me that it was a frequency chart. He scanned it, considered his options and paused. Click. Swipe. Remembering the chart he’d completed with his class a few days earlier, he answered all but one of the questions correctly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the class average score on the probability quiz was just 76 percent, a reflection of the sometimes-difficult task of getting kids to use game strategies when no games are present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet, middle schoolers at Quest perform well on state standardized tests. For example, in 2013, the school reports, 56 percent of Quest middle school students scored higher than their citywide peers on the statewide English language arts test. Richard Arum, an education researcher based at New York University, is working with the school to study its efficiency by tracking things like student test scores over time. But administrators stress that test scores are not the primary clue that a school is working. The games teach students how to think and how to design their own learning opportunities—skills not easily measured on a test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By May 20, Buzz, the honeybee who fled the hive, had tried new food at a picnic (a lesson in proportions and bar graphs) and evaded the Queen Bee’s scheme to lure him back. The class had created line graphs and histograms, and had also learned about how bees see color differently from humans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the beginning of one lesson, Etai worked on a crossword puzzle filled with algebraic terms like “linear,” “absolute” and “y-axis.” I asked why he thought they were reviewing the terms, and what this had to do with Buzz. “In the beginning of the year, we learned about coordinates, so I think this may eventually get into that,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the rest of the period, he sat hunched over a table with his classmates Alex, Sydney and Kevin. Linear equations flashed on a laptop screen. The game, called Get to the Point, required them to solve equations and plot all the possible coordinates on an oversized plastic graph. For example, “If x+y = 6” appears, the players put cubes on all the potential answers. It was a fast-moving game, but Etai seemed less concerned with winning than with getting the problems right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They used quick mental math, their pens and notebooks banished to the corners of the desk, until one problem stumped them. “The product of x and y is positive or negative 12” flashed across the screen. Etai and Sydney reached for their pencils while the others worked through the math out loud, brows furrowed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I stood by, the most confused in the bunch, while the boys tentatively placed blocks on the board, looking for validation in one another’s eyes. Kevin and Etai placed their last pieces on the board and peered at each other. “Are we done?” one boy asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As it turns out, they weren’t. An answer key on the laptop revealed that they’d forgotten one coordinate — grounds for lost points, according to the rules of the game. The next few minutes were spent arguing over who exactly would lose the point. And then they clicked to the next challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_41624\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-41624\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/GamesStudent-1217-e1439446276692.jpg\" alt=\"Student Etai Kurtzman, 12, wins a bear at the Roll-A-Ball game at Coney Island in Brooklyn, NY May 28, 2015. The group of students from Quest to Learn School took the day trip to Coney Island to analyze user experience on games and rides at Luna Park as part of their late-spring school curriculum. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Student Etai Kurtzman, 12, wins a bear at the Roll-A-Ball game at Coney Island in Brooklyn, NY May 28, 2015. The group of students from Quest to Learn School took the day trip to Coney Island to analyze user experience on games and rides at Luna Park as part of their late-spring school curriculum. \u003ccite>(Kevin Hagen for The Hechinger Report )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In two years, Etai will start the high school application rat race in New York City. While Quest does extend to high school (they’ll graduate their first senior class next year), whether Etai will stick around that long remains to be seen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His parents say the games have made him a risk-taker, unaffected by the frustration he often felt in elementary school if something didn’t work the first time. It was not until he got to Quest that he realized just how good he was at math, said Armony-Kurtzman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some parents worry that if their children leave Quest for a more conventional classroom, the absence of games could be detrimental to their learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anita Ramsey, whose daughter Mia is in Etai’s class, said her daughter used to be shy and reluctant to participate in class. Now she raises her hand frequently and comes home energized about her schoolwork. Ramsey worries that a return to rote memorization might push her daughter back into her shell, putting her at a disadvantage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, according to Rufo-Tepper, 52 percent of Quest eighth-graders returned for ninth grade, while a sizeable 28 percent went to selective or specialized high schools around the city, a sign that the model is working well so far. Although 20 percent of students left after middle school, that is partly attributable to the fact that Quest to Learn has no track record yet for high school (it will graduate its first senior class next year).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Selkirk said narratives like the one about Buzz the bee teach her students creativity and problem-solving. “Those are skills that will lead them to be successful in any classroom,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Etai agrees. When I asked him if he thought that growing accustomed to learning with games would make high school harder if he left Quest, the answer was a definitive no. And for high school, he has no doubt he’ll be at least as prepared as anyone else — no matter what kind of school he attends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of May, the sixth-grade class left the bubble of their school. They’d spent three humid days drudging through lessons about slope — where to find it and how to calculate it. Now Buzz was on the hunt for something fun to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A long, noisy subway ride dropped them off at Brooklyn’s Coney Island for a good old-fashioned field trip. Chaperones ran after Etai and crew as they zipped on and off of rides at Luna Park. The students huddled together to answer questions from a handout about how they’d experienced slope in real time on the rides, and about how the games they had played illustrated probability and other terms they’d learned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_41623\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-41623\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/GamesStudent-466-e1439446030700.jpg\" alt=\"Thea Jones, 12, at left, Etai Kurtzman, 12, Seth Samuel, 12 and Terrell Gantt, 12, fill out game analysis worksheets at Coney Island in Brooklyn, NY May 28, 2015. The group of students from Quest to Learn School took the day trip to Coney Island to analyze user experience on games and rides at Luna Park as part of their late-spring school curriculum. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thea Jones, 12, at left, Etai Kurtzman, 12, Seth Samuel, 12 and Terrell Gantt, 12, fill out game analysis worksheets at Coney Island in Brooklyn, NY May 28, 2015. The group of students from Quest to Learn School took the day trip to Coney Island to analyze user experience on games and rides at Luna Park as part of their late-spring school curriculum. \u003ccite>(Kevin Hagen for The Hechinger Report)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After a ride on a bumpy red roller coaster that dipped up and down and spun around sharp corners, Etai crouched near the exit and pulled out a pencil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No-slope is more thrilling because you’re going against gravity and it kind of makes you feel weird,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after waiting in line for another ride, he changed his mind, darting out of his seat and bolting for the exit. That ride — mini-airplanes that spun and flipped their passengers vertically — had no slope, he told me. And no slope was a no-go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The experience at the park would later help him design his own roller coaster in class — complete with an example of each different type of slope — using Minecraft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the park, Etai and his classmates looked like kids from any other middle school: energetic, loud, a little bit hyper. They seemed as concerned with re-riding the Steeplechase roller coaster as many times as possible as they were with finishing their assignment packets. They laughed and ate candy, but they were also talking about math, even while on the rides. When Selkirk rode a roller coaster with a group of students, they shouted out the different kinds of slopes as the ride whipped up and down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_41622\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-41622\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/GamesStudent-1412-e1439446361299.jpg\" alt=\"Students Terrell Gantt, left, and Etai Kurtzman, 12, share an Icee during a class trip to Coney Island in Brooklyn, NY May 28, 2015. The group of students from Quest to Learn School took the day trip to Coney Island to analyze user experience on games and rides at Luna Park as part of their late-spring school curriculum. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students Terrell Gantt, left, and Etai Kurtzman, 12, share an Icee during a class trip to Coney Island in Brooklyn, NY May 28, 2015. The group of students from Quest to Learn School took the day trip to Coney Island to analyze user experience on games and rides at Luna Park as part of their late-spring school curriculum. \u003ccite>(Kevin Hagen for The Hechinger Report )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The larger point of the trip — to see where math happens in real life — didn’t seem lost on the bunch. Playing games, whether at an amusement park or in the classroom, is no gimmick, said Ella Reyl, a classmate who was in Etai’s group for the trip. The games and activities and trips, Ella said, are for the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not to just copy stuff down,” she said. “It’s for next time, when we don’t have a game. We have a way to think about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And learning how to think is arguably the point of it all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://hechingerreport.org/\">The Hechinger Report\u003c/a>\u003cem>, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Read more about \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://hechingerreport.org/special-reports/blended-learning/\">\u003cem>technology in the classroom\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"At Quest to Learn, the school applies games to help kids learn more deeply and feel engaged about what they're learning. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1439473929,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":64,"wordCount":3958},"headData":{"title":"What Do Sixth Graders Say About Learning With Games? It Works | KQED","description":"At Quest to Learn, the school applies games to help kids learn more deeply and feel engaged about what they're learning. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"41614 http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/?p=41614","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2015/08/13/what-do-sixth-graders-say-about-learning-with-games-it-works/","disqusTitle":"What Do Sixth Graders Say About Learning With Games? It Works","path":"/mindshift/41614/what-do-sixth-graders-say-about-learning-with-games-it-works","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>By Alexandria Neason\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://hechingerreport.org/\">The Hechinger Report\u003c/a>\u003cem>, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Read more about \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://hechingerreport.org/special-reports/blended-learning/\">\u003cem>technology in the classroom\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NEW YORK — One morning, just before classes at New York City’s \u003ca href=\"http://q2l.org/\">Quest to Learn\u003c/a> Middle School broke for lunch, Etai Kurtzman found himself transformed into a lemon tree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a warm day in late April, and his chatty sixth-grade class had been corralled from a narrow hallway into a classroom at the end of a short hall. Etai, tall and lanky, lugged a gray backpack to a desk that had been pushed up against a wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each student had been cast for a role-playing game either as a honeybee sent out from the hive or as a plant. In a flurry of organized chaos, the students simulated the pollination process: student honey bees, wearing pipe-cleaner antennae, approached classmates pretending to be plants and received small, colored building blocks. When a plant ran out of blocks, it meant their flowers had been pollinated. But the bees had to be careful: some of the plants randomly gave them white blocks, which represented pesticides and caused the bees to die.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their teacher, Kate Selkirk, was using this game as a starting point for an eight-week unit on math concepts — data analysis and graphing, proportions, probability and slope. But what does a beehive or a lemon tree have to do with any of that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The designers behind Quest to Learn believe that student engagement is so significantly enhanced by narrative role-play, analog games and digital games that every subject — from health to math — begins or ends with a game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lesson about power and privilege, for example, might begin with a card game in which some players are deliberately and arbitrarily more disadvantaged than others. This type of simulation creates real empathy, which helps to make abstract concepts more concrete — and boosts engagement as a result.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while blended learning — a mix of teacher-led and computerized instruction — is proliferating across the country, schools that wholeheartedly embrace games-based learning remain rare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a very small number if schools that really try to redesign the school around games-based learning,” said Justin Leites, vice-president of Amplify Learning, a company that makes digital education games. One of the biggest challenges, he says, is bringing games into schools that are bogged down by accountability demands—often ones that rely heavily on standardized testing. Attempts to use games as assessments ruin the playful experiences that make them an effective learning tool, he said. And designing good games is no easy task.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very hard to design a good game of any sort,” he said. “And a really good learning experience, that’s even harder.” The training teachers need to design strong games for the classroom takes time and money—a hard sell at schools strapped for cash and resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this type of classroom, while unusual, makes perfect sense to Etai and his classmates. At the core of gaming is the concept of a challenge, and a player’s journey to meet it. That makes perfect sense inside a school building, Etai told me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not competitive,” he said. “It’s more about ‘let’s figure it out.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_41618\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-41618\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/GamesStudent-173-e1439445468256.jpg\" alt=\"Etai Kurtzman, 12, at Luna Park in Coney Island in Brooklyn, NY May 28, 2015. The group of students from Quest to Learn School took the day trip to Coney Island to analyze user experience on games and rides at Luna Park as part of their late-spring school curriculum. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Etai Kurtzman, 12, at Luna Park in Coney Island in Brooklyn, NY May 28, 2015. The group of students from Quest to Learn School took the day trip to Coney Island to analyze user experience on games and rides at Luna Park as part of their late-spring school curriculum. \u003ccite>(Kevin Hagen for The Hechinger Report)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Quest to Learn is housed in the Bayard Rustin Educational Complex, a massive brick fortress that is home to six schools on West 18th Street in Chelsea. The overlapping schedules of each school create a steady echo of activity in the hallways: a couple of teens who showed up late for school explaining themselves to a school safety officer, teachers ushering wayward kids into classrooms, the sharp beeping of the heavy service elevators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On that day in late April, the new unit in Etai’s “Codeworlds” math class was built around a narrative about a restless honey bee named Buzz, who leaves the monotony of the hive in search of real fun. The obvious metaphor for bored kids stuck inside a stuffy school building all day immediately seemed to resonate with the class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “roll out,” as it’s known in Quest lingo, was intended to get the class invested in the plight of Buzz. The actual math concepts would be delivered as the class returned again and again to this character.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Etai’s old school, P.S. 41 in Greenwich Village, these concepts would likely have been taught through daily lessons and note-taking. There were no games or role-playing. There were workbooks and worksheets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I definitely learned a lot, but it was not as fun, not as interesting,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mor Armony-Kurtzman, Etai’s mother, said he rarely talked about school while at P.S. 41. “I expected that when he got to middle school, we’d start hearing [even] less about school,” she said. “It’s the exact opposite.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_41619\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-41619\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/GamesStudent-100-e1439445680375.jpg\" alt=\"Etai Kurtzman, 12, and Terrell Gantt, 12, on a ride at Luna Park in Coney Island in Brooklyn, NY May 28, 2015. The group of students from Quest to Learn School took the day trip to Coney Island to analyze user experience on games and rides at Luna Park as part of their late-spring school curriculum. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Etai Kurtzman, 12, and Terrell Gantt, 12, on a ride at Luna Park in Coney Island in Brooklyn, NY May 28, 2015. The group of students from Quest to Learn School took the day trip to Coney Island to analyze user experience on games and rides at Luna Park as part of their late-spring school curriculum. \u003ccite>(Kevin Hagen for The Hechinger Report)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When I visited his class again, during lunch one day early in May, Etai munched on mini bagels slathered in cream cheese while he taught me to play a dice game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The game, called Skunk, was a primer for a lesson in probability. Students roll dice to earn points. You can roll the dice as many times as you want through each of five rounds, but if you roll a one on either die, you earn no points. And a roll of double ones erases all your points. When I asked Etai what the purpose was, he said that he was supposed to learn about the relationship between choice and chance. These two concepts later helped him understand how calculating probability could help him make a decision about whether or not to take a risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Etai, it is easy to find places in his life outside school where probability matters. In games he plays for fun, like Monopoly and another board game called Settlers of Catan, players make strategic decisions that can be more expertly executed if they understand the probability of rolling a particular combination of numbers on the dice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Settlers of Catan, Etai explained, players choose which parts of an imaginary new world to settle. Different types of terrain come paired with different numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In that game, you strategize where you place pieces based on the likelihood of numbers you’ll roll,” he said. “I never took into account the number of choices, the possibilities when rolling the dice. I thought the numbers were there just because. Now I know.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And suddenly, the bee role-playing game that he had participated in weeks earlier also made sense. “I realized that the activity actually had something to do with probability, because there were only three white blocks,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This sort of indirect entry into a Common Core standard — in which students are supposed to realize the \u003cem>usefulness\u003c/em> of a concept before they learn how to use it — is at the root of all teaching instruction at Quest, according to Rebecca Rufo-Tepper, the director of professional development for the Institute of Play, which promotes gaming in schools and designed Quest to Learn. The old mantra that demands kids work before they play doesn’t apply. Here, playing enables the learning. But the two cannot exist in isolation. Traditional learning must still happen to help students master standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A game can’t do everything, and that’s a mistake we often see,” said Rufo-Tepper. “The game has a very specific role.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Skunk, that role was to get kids thinking about how and when they can use choice to beat chance. Only then were the kids ready — eager, even — to learn how to mathematically calculate the likelihood of rolling any particular combination on the dice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The games demonstrate to the kids why the skills they’ll soon learn matter beyond tests and grades. Teachers then move on to use more traditional, straightforward teaching practices. Warm-up and group activities and quizzes appear regularly in Etai’s class, sometimes to help settle the kids after a rowdy lunch period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_41621\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-41621\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/GamesStudent-1194-e1439446077925.jpg\" alt=\"Students fill out games analysis worksheets at the Roll-A-Ball game during a trip to Coney Island in Brooklyn, NY May 28, 2015. The group of students from Quest to Learn School took the day trip to Coney Island to analyze user experience on games and rides at Luna Park as part of their late-spring school curriculum. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students fill out games analysis worksheets at the Roll-A-Ball game during a trip to Coney Island in Brooklyn, NY May 28, 2015. The group of students from Quest to Learn School took the day trip to Coney Island to analyze user experience on games and rides at Luna Park as part of their late-spring school curriculum. \u003ccite>(Kevin Hagen for The Hechinger Report )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the sticky May humidity, Selkirk wrote definitions on the whiteboard with a squeaky black marker while the class fidgeted and copied them down. Video lessons, worksheets and group work followed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are, after all, sixth-graders. “There is a routine, a regular structure,” Selkirk said. “You can’t abandon traditional teaching practices. It’s not ‘Play a game and you’re never going to have to demonstrate that you’ve learned anything.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After playing Skunk, the kids had two days of more straightforward math lessons. They charted all the potential combinations they could roll on two dice to help them visualize how probable it was to roll any particular combination. They practiced expressing probability in fractions, in their notebooks and on worksheets. That learning was then reinforced with yet another game, called Caterpillar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Caterpillar, students used their knowledge of how likely it is to roll a specific dice combination to place blocks, called mushrooms, on a plastic game board. Etai’s favorite parts of this game? Doing the math quickly. Strategizing. And winning as a result.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then it was time for the quiz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Etai peered at the screen of a silver MacBook laptop, his notebook open on the desk next to him. He moved quickly through the multiple-choice questions, including one very confusing-looking chart full of fractions; he told me that it was a frequency chart. He scanned it, considered his options and paused. Click. Swipe. Remembering the chart he’d completed with his class a few days earlier, he answered all but one of the questions correctly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the class average score on the probability quiz was just 76 percent, a reflection of the sometimes-difficult task of getting kids to use game strategies when no games are present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet, middle schoolers at Quest perform well on state standardized tests. For example, in 2013, the school reports, 56 percent of Quest middle school students scored higher than their citywide peers on the statewide English language arts test. Richard Arum, an education researcher based at New York University, is working with the school to study its efficiency by tracking things like student test scores over time. But administrators stress that test scores are not the primary clue that a school is working. The games teach students how to think and how to design their own learning opportunities—skills not easily measured on a test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By May 20, Buzz, the honeybee who fled the hive, had tried new food at a picnic (a lesson in proportions and bar graphs) and evaded the Queen Bee’s scheme to lure him back. The class had created line graphs and histograms, and had also learned about how bees see color differently from humans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the beginning of one lesson, Etai worked on a crossword puzzle filled with algebraic terms like “linear,” “absolute” and “y-axis.” I asked why he thought they were reviewing the terms, and what this had to do with Buzz. “In the beginning of the year, we learned about coordinates, so I think this may eventually get into that,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the rest of the period, he sat hunched over a table with his classmates Alex, Sydney and Kevin. Linear equations flashed on a laptop screen. The game, called Get to the Point, required them to solve equations and plot all the possible coordinates on an oversized plastic graph. For example, “If x+y = 6” appears, the players put cubes on all the potential answers. It was a fast-moving game, but Etai seemed less concerned with winning than with getting the problems right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They used quick mental math, their pens and notebooks banished to the corners of the desk, until one problem stumped them. “The product of x and y is positive or negative 12” flashed across the screen. Etai and Sydney reached for their pencils while the others worked through the math out loud, brows furrowed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I stood by, the most confused in the bunch, while the boys tentatively placed blocks on the board, looking for validation in one another’s eyes. Kevin and Etai placed their last pieces on the board and peered at each other. “Are we done?” one boy asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As it turns out, they weren’t. An answer key on the laptop revealed that they’d forgotten one coordinate — grounds for lost points, according to the rules of the game. The next few minutes were spent arguing over who exactly would lose the point. And then they clicked to the next challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_41624\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-41624\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/GamesStudent-1217-e1439446276692.jpg\" alt=\"Student Etai Kurtzman, 12, wins a bear at the Roll-A-Ball game at Coney Island in Brooklyn, NY May 28, 2015. The group of students from Quest to Learn School took the day trip to Coney Island to analyze user experience on games and rides at Luna Park as part of their late-spring school curriculum. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Student Etai Kurtzman, 12, wins a bear at the Roll-A-Ball game at Coney Island in Brooklyn, NY May 28, 2015. The group of students from Quest to Learn School took the day trip to Coney Island to analyze user experience on games and rides at Luna Park as part of their late-spring school curriculum. \u003ccite>(Kevin Hagen for The Hechinger Report )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In two years, Etai will start the high school application rat race in New York City. While Quest does extend to high school (they’ll graduate their first senior class next year), whether Etai will stick around that long remains to be seen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His parents say the games have made him a risk-taker, unaffected by the frustration he often felt in elementary school if something didn’t work the first time. It was not until he got to Quest that he realized just how good he was at math, said Armony-Kurtzman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some parents worry that if their children leave Quest for a more conventional classroom, the absence of games could be detrimental to their learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anita Ramsey, whose daughter Mia is in Etai’s class, said her daughter used to be shy and reluctant to participate in class. Now she raises her hand frequently and comes home energized about her schoolwork. Ramsey worries that a return to rote memorization might push her daughter back into her shell, putting her at a disadvantage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, according to Rufo-Tepper, 52 percent of Quest eighth-graders returned for ninth grade, while a sizeable 28 percent went to selective or specialized high schools around the city, a sign that the model is working well so far. Although 20 percent of students left after middle school, that is partly attributable to the fact that Quest to Learn has no track record yet for high school (it will graduate its first senior class next year).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Selkirk said narratives like the one about Buzz the bee teach her students creativity and problem-solving. “Those are skills that will lead them to be successful in any classroom,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Etai agrees. When I asked him if he thought that growing accustomed to learning with games would make high school harder if he left Quest, the answer was a definitive no. And for high school, he has no doubt he’ll be at least as prepared as anyone else — no matter what kind of school he attends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of May, the sixth-grade class left the bubble of their school. They’d spent three humid days drudging through lessons about slope — where to find it and how to calculate it. Now Buzz was on the hunt for something fun to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A long, noisy subway ride dropped them off at Brooklyn’s Coney Island for a good old-fashioned field trip. Chaperones ran after Etai and crew as they zipped on and off of rides at Luna Park. The students huddled together to answer questions from a handout about how they’d experienced slope in real time on the rides, and about how the games they had played illustrated probability and other terms they’d learned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_41623\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-41623\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/GamesStudent-466-e1439446030700.jpg\" alt=\"Thea Jones, 12, at left, Etai Kurtzman, 12, Seth Samuel, 12 and Terrell Gantt, 12, fill out game analysis worksheets at Coney Island in Brooklyn, NY May 28, 2015. The group of students from Quest to Learn School took the day trip to Coney Island to analyze user experience on games and rides at Luna Park as part of their late-spring school curriculum. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thea Jones, 12, at left, Etai Kurtzman, 12, Seth Samuel, 12 and Terrell Gantt, 12, fill out game analysis worksheets at Coney Island in Brooklyn, NY May 28, 2015. The group of students from Quest to Learn School took the day trip to Coney Island to analyze user experience on games and rides at Luna Park as part of their late-spring school curriculum. \u003ccite>(Kevin Hagen for The Hechinger Report)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After a ride on a bumpy red roller coaster that dipped up and down and spun around sharp corners, Etai crouched near the exit and pulled out a pencil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No-slope is more thrilling because you’re going against gravity and it kind of makes you feel weird,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after waiting in line for another ride, he changed his mind, darting out of his seat and bolting for the exit. That ride — mini-airplanes that spun and flipped their passengers vertically — had no slope, he told me. And no slope was a no-go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The experience at the park would later help him design his own roller coaster in class — complete with an example of each different type of slope — using Minecraft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the park, Etai and his classmates looked like kids from any other middle school: energetic, loud, a little bit hyper. They seemed as concerned with re-riding the Steeplechase roller coaster as many times as possible as they were with finishing their assignment packets. They laughed and ate candy, but they were also talking about math, even while on the rides. When Selkirk rode a roller coaster with a group of students, they shouted out the different kinds of slopes as the ride whipped up and down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_41622\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-41622\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/GamesStudent-1412-e1439446361299.jpg\" alt=\"Students Terrell Gantt, left, and Etai Kurtzman, 12, share an Icee during a class trip to Coney Island in Brooklyn, NY May 28, 2015. The group of students from Quest to Learn School took the day trip to Coney Island to analyze user experience on games and rides at Luna Park as part of their late-spring school curriculum. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students Terrell Gantt, left, and Etai Kurtzman, 12, share an Icee during a class trip to Coney Island in Brooklyn, NY May 28, 2015. The group of students from Quest to Learn School took the day trip to Coney Island to analyze user experience on games and rides at Luna Park as part of their late-spring school curriculum. \u003ccite>(Kevin Hagen for The Hechinger Report )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The larger point of the trip — to see where math happens in real life — didn’t seem lost on the bunch. Playing games, whether at an amusement park or in the classroom, is no gimmick, said Ella Reyl, a classmate who was in Etai’s group for the trip. The games and activities and trips, Ella said, are for the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not to just copy stuff down,” she said. “It’s for next time, when we don’t have a game. We have a way to think about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And learning how to think is arguably the point of it all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://hechingerreport.org/\">The Hechinger Report\u003c/a>\u003cem>, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Read more about \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://hechingerreport.org/special-reports/blended-learning/\">\u003cem>technology in the classroom\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/41614/what-do-sixth-graders-say-about-learning-with-games-it-works","authors":["4354"],"categories":["mindshift_192","mindshift_195"],"tags":["mindshift_20784","mindshift_1040","mindshift_548","mindshift_930"],"featImg":"mindshift_41617","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_36814":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_36814","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"36814","score":null,"sort":[1406210409000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"what-happens-when-school-design-looks-like-game-design","title":"What Happens When School Design Looks Like Game Design","publishDate":1406210409,"format":"aside","headTitle":"The MindShift Guide to Digital Games and Learning | MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":20669,"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_36821\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-36821\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2014/07/j84a8474_0.jpg\" alt=\"Quest to Learn\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2014/07/j84a8474_0.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2014/07/j84a8474_0-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2014/07/j84a8474_0-320x214.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Quest to Learn\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Part 13 of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/series/guide-to-games-and-learning/\" target=\"_blank\">MindShift's Guide to Games and Learning\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"dropcap-serif\">In education, it seems as if innovation and revolution play like the song of the Sirens in a culture of perpetual obsolescence. It seems as if we’ve got an unhealthy fetish for new-ness, indiscriminately choosing the convenient disposability of shrink-wrap over the sustainability of the well-worn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Digital games can be amazing tools, but only when used to make it easier to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/05/how-games-based-learning-teaches-problem-solving-in-context/\">contextualize the gifts\u003c/a> we’ve received from Shakespeare, Socrates, Euclid, and others. The thing about tools is that their strength is usually derived from the way they approach a problem rather than in the particularity of the solution they offer. For example, consider the hammer: a great technological innovation that our human ancestors imagined more than 2 million years ago. What made it revolutionary was not so much in the material from which it was assembled, nor the particular object it bashed. Instead, the hammer was revolutionary because it forever transformed human experience by introducing the possibility of striking, and therefore altering, our natural surroundings. It changed the way we look at things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still today, a great deal of our teaching is essentially grounded in teaching the perspective that early tools enabled. We want our students to know that humans have the capacity to shape their own world. We want them to provide them with the skills necessary to do so. We want to teach them how to utilize the ways of knowing that were made possible through the technological innovations that enabled, produced, and shaped the civilizations of the past and the present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our current civilization is built on information technologies. Smartphones, the internet, and video games are all simply hunks of machinery that become special because they introduce new interactive narrative structures. They introduce non-linear ways of thinking about the world and organizing information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-35200 alignright\" style=\"border: 0\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2014/04/MindShiftGames-140x140.png\" alt=\"MindShiftGames\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we look at a network, or a jumble of hyperlinks, or an interactive simulation like a video game, it immediately appears chaotic. This is because we are conditioned to make sense of it using the habitual linear narrative traditions that have defined “literacy” for a few thousand years. We try to identify beginnings, middles, and ends. But new narrative conventions require a different form of literacy: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/07/games-can-advance-education-a-conversation-with-james-paul-gee/\">systems literacy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Systems literacy is playful and inter-subjective. It defines order according to the way things interact with one another. It privileges the quality of the relationship between nodes rather than trying to figure out what is first, last, and in-between (value judgments). Systems work more like a sandboxes than ambitious ladders to the top.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the current world, our schools should be focused on teaching both linear and non-linear ways of knowing. We need to remember that the goal of technology is ultimately to help us mentor our youth so that they become familiar with the many ways of knowing that humanity has discovered. It's not just to develop proficiency with today’s tools while maintaining yesterday’s predominant thinking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This shift is precisely what seems to be happening at the \u003ca href=\"http://q2l.org/\">Quest To Learn School\u003c/a>. Curriculum experts and game designers work together to reimagine what school might look like if it drew its inspiration from video games. The New York City public school employs a standards-based integrated curriculum that “mimics the action and design principles of games by generating a compelling ‘need to know’ in the classroom,” as they describe it. The goal: to intrinsically motivate kids toward mastery. Students seek out knowledge because they need to know it in order to complete a project based task.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quest To Learn doesn’t set out to change the learning objectives, but rather the process through which they are achieved. Of course, process and product are indistinct. Transform the shape of the container and you simultaneously alter the the kind of content that can fit inside. Sometimes you don’t notice all the implications just by looking at the surface. Students at the Quest To Learn School “encounter a series of increasingly complex, narrative challenges, games or quests, where learning, knowledge sharing, feedback, reflection and next steps emerge as a natural function of play.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GAMES IN PRACTICE\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I visited Quest To Learn, I saw a school that looked very similar to any other school, except every student seemed engaged, empowered, and motivated. It wasn’t what I expected from a place that most people describe as “the video game school.” There weren’t screens all over the place. No fingers pounding game controllers. I didn’t see tons of gadgets or gizmos. But I did see a curriculum that was designed to approach from a video game perspective. The organizational structure through which material was presented was game-like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_36819\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-36819\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2014/07/PANO_20140624_131530-640x233.jpg\" alt=\"Jordan Shapiro/MindShift\" width=\"640\" height=\"233\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Quest to Learn School: Jordan Shapiro/MindShift\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Failure is reframed as iteration” reads one poster that’s hanging by the elevators. Another explains how to break down complex ideas: “Systems are all around us -- games are playful systems.” Students are encouraged to analyze, interpret, and articulate using categories like space, components, rules, challenges, core mechanics, and goals. They apply this model, or other game-based systems-thinking models, to almost everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one class, kids play \u003ca href=\"http://www.instituteofplay.org/work/projects/print-play-games-2/socratic-smackdown/\">Socratic Smackdown\u003c/a>. Eighth-grade English Language Arts Teacher/Designer Rebecca Grodner created the game to teach the building blocks of argumentation while simultaneously making a space where students practice and assess their peers’ conversational etiquette. Students might earn points for using supporting evidence or playing devil’s advocate. They lose points for interrupting or insulting other players. They’re intrinsically motivated to learn the components of rhetoric, to understand how they function within a discursive system, and to be able to use them in everyday contexts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"43245470412e360d3a276e622d83cd20\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another class, the students play Rock-onimoes, a geology-themed version of dominoes that asks players to make connections by using words like sedimentary and magma. Again, they need to understand the relationships between the geological concepts. Success is a product of their to ability use complex concepts in context, not to memorize and regurgitate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quest To Learn shows us what happens when the old “factory model” of organization is replaced with a systems-based game-like paradigm. They call it games, systems, or design. That’s code for understanding content in context -- and for seeing the interconnectedness between elements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to do a better job at giving children and young people opportunities to rise, which means developing systems that enable that rise -- that enable them to move across networks and to engage in really hard problems with relevant resources. Games are all about creating spaces of possibility, where players feel they can do anything,” \u003ca href=\"http://www.instituteofplay.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/QuestToLearn-DevelopingTheSchoolForDigitalKids.pdf\">writes Katie Salen\u003c/a>, who helped launch and design Quest To Learn while she was the founding executive director of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.instituteofplay.org/\">Institute of Play\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Systems are all about connections, networks, and the ways in which nodes relate to one another. This focus on connections might also be one of the building blocks of citizenry, humanity, and social community. Perhaps this is why one of Quest To Learn’s core values is “Collaboration Matters.” You can see it manifest among their students. They embody it. They know that “we need the support, ideas, and respect of others to truly succeed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/series/guide-to-games-and-learning/\" target=\"_blank\">MindShift Guide to Games and Learning\u003c/a> is made possible through the generous support of the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/05/math-science-history-games-break-boundaries-between-subjects-interdisciplinary-learning/www.joanganzcooneycenter.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Joan Ganz Cooney Center\u003c/a> and is a project of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.joanganzcooneycenter.org/initiative/games-and-learning-publishing-council-analyzing-a-rising-sector/\" target=\"_blank\">Games and Learning Publishing Council\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"At the Quest To Learn School, curriculum experts and game designers work together to reimagine what school might look like if it drew its inspiration from video games.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1406144745,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":1288},"headData":{"title":"What Happens When School Design Looks Like Game Design | KQED","description":"At the Quest To Learn School, curriculum experts and game designers work together to reimagine what school might look like if it drew its inspiration from video games.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"36814 http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/?p=36814","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/07/24/what-happens-when-school-design-looks-like-game-design/","disqusTitle":"What Happens When School Design Looks Like Game Design","path":"/mindshift/36814/what-happens-when-school-design-looks-like-game-design","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_36821\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-36821\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2014/07/j84a8474_0.jpg\" alt=\"Quest to Learn\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2014/07/j84a8474_0.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2014/07/j84a8474_0-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2014/07/j84a8474_0-320x214.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Quest to Learn\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Part 13 of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/series/guide-to-games-and-learning/\" target=\"_blank\">MindShift's Guide to Games and Learning\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"dropcap-serif\">In education, it seems as if innovation and revolution play like the song of the Sirens in a culture of perpetual obsolescence. It seems as if we’ve got an unhealthy fetish for new-ness, indiscriminately choosing the convenient disposability of shrink-wrap over the sustainability of the well-worn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Digital games can be amazing tools, but only when used to make it easier to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/05/how-games-based-learning-teaches-problem-solving-in-context/\">contextualize the gifts\u003c/a> we’ve received from Shakespeare, Socrates, Euclid, and others. The thing about tools is that their strength is usually derived from the way they approach a problem rather than in the particularity of the solution they offer. For example, consider the hammer: a great technological innovation that our human ancestors imagined more than 2 million years ago. What made it revolutionary was not so much in the material from which it was assembled, nor the particular object it bashed. Instead, the hammer was revolutionary because it forever transformed human experience by introducing the possibility of striking, and therefore altering, our natural surroundings. It changed the way we look at things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still today, a great deal of our teaching is essentially grounded in teaching the perspective that early tools enabled. We want our students to know that humans have the capacity to shape their own world. We want them to provide them with the skills necessary to do so. We want to teach them how to utilize the ways of knowing that were made possible through the technological innovations that enabled, produced, and shaped the civilizations of the past and the present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our current civilization is built on information technologies. Smartphones, the internet, and video games are all simply hunks of machinery that become special because they introduce new interactive narrative structures. They introduce non-linear ways of thinking about the world and organizing information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-35200 alignright\" style=\"border: 0\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2014/04/MindShiftGames-140x140.png\" alt=\"MindShiftGames\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we look at a network, or a jumble of hyperlinks, or an interactive simulation like a video game, it immediately appears chaotic. This is because we are conditioned to make sense of it using the habitual linear narrative traditions that have defined “literacy” for a few thousand years. We try to identify beginnings, middles, and ends. But new narrative conventions require a different form of literacy: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/07/games-can-advance-education-a-conversation-with-james-paul-gee/\">systems literacy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Systems literacy is playful and inter-subjective. It defines order according to the way things interact with one another. It privileges the quality of the relationship between nodes rather than trying to figure out what is first, last, and in-between (value judgments). Systems work more like a sandboxes than ambitious ladders to the top.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the current world, our schools should be focused on teaching both linear and non-linear ways of knowing. We need to remember that the goal of technology is ultimately to help us mentor our youth so that they become familiar with the many ways of knowing that humanity has discovered. It's not just to develop proficiency with today’s tools while maintaining yesterday’s predominant thinking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This shift is precisely what seems to be happening at the \u003ca href=\"http://q2l.org/\">Quest To Learn School\u003c/a>. Curriculum experts and game designers work together to reimagine what school might look like if it drew its inspiration from video games. The New York City public school employs a standards-based integrated curriculum that “mimics the action and design principles of games by generating a compelling ‘need to know’ in the classroom,” as they describe it. The goal: to intrinsically motivate kids toward mastery. Students seek out knowledge because they need to know it in order to complete a project based task.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quest To Learn doesn’t set out to change the learning objectives, but rather the process through which they are achieved. Of course, process and product are indistinct. Transform the shape of the container and you simultaneously alter the the kind of content that can fit inside. Sometimes you don’t notice all the implications just by looking at the surface. Students at the Quest To Learn School “encounter a series of increasingly complex, narrative challenges, games or quests, where learning, knowledge sharing, feedback, reflection and next steps emerge as a natural function of play.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GAMES IN PRACTICE\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I visited Quest To Learn, I saw a school that looked very similar to any other school, except every student seemed engaged, empowered, and motivated. It wasn’t what I expected from a place that most people describe as “the video game school.” There weren’t screens all over the place. No fingers pounding game controllers. I didn’t see tons of gadgets or gizmos. But I did see a curriculum that was designed to approach from a video game perspective. The organizational structure through which material was presented was game-like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_36819\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-36819\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2014/07/PANO_20140624_131530-640x233.jpg\" alt=\"Jordan Shapiro/MindShift\" width=\"640\" height=\"233\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Quest to Learn School: Jordan Shapiro/MindShift\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Failure is reframed as iteration” reads one poster that’s hanging by the elevators. Another explains how to break down complex ideas: “Systems are all around us -- games are playful systems.” Students are encouraged to analyze, interpret, and articulate using categories like space, components, rules, challenges, core mechanics, and goals. They apply this model, or other game-based systems-thinking models, to almost everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one class, kids play \u003ca href=\"http://www.instituteofplay.org/work/projects/print-play-games-2/socratic-smackdown/\">Socratic Smackdown\u003c/a>. Eighth-grade English Language Arts Teacher/Designer Rebecca Grodner created the game to teach the building blocks of argumentation while simultaneously making a space where students practice and assess their peers’ conversational etiquette. Students might earn points for using supporting evidence or playing devil’s advocate. They lose points for interrupting or insulting other players. They’re intrinsically motivated to learn the components of rhetoric, to understand how they function within a discursive system, and to be able to use them in everyday contexts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another class, the students play Rock-onimoes, a geology-themed version of dominoes that asks players to make connections by using words like sedimentary and magma. Again, they need to understand the relationships between the geological concepts. Success is a product of their to ability use complex concepts in context, not to memorize and regurgitate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quest To Learn shows us what happens when the old “factory model” of organization is replaced with a systems-based game-like paradigm. They call it games, systems, or design. That’s code for understanding content in context -- and for seeing the interconnectedness between elements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to do a better job at giving children and young people opportunities to rise, which means developing systems that enable that rise -- that enable them to move across networks and to engage in really hard problems with relevant resources. Games are all about creating spaces of possibility, where players feel they can do anything,” \u003ca href=\"http://www.instituteofplay.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/QuestToLearn-DevelopingTheSchoolForDigitalKids.pdf\">writes Katie Salen\u003c/a>, who helped launch and design Quest To Learn while she was the founding executive director of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.instituteofplay.org/\">Institute of Play\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Systems are all about connections, networks, and the ways in which nodes relate to one another. This focus on connections might also be one of the building blocks of citizenry, humanity, and social community. Perhaps this is why one of Quest To Learn’s core values is “Collaboration Matters.” You can see it manifest among their students. They embody it. 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New thinking on education intends to bring students' interests into the classroom. It's called Connected Learning and promotes the idea that students will excel in school if what they are learning is relevant to their lives, experiences, and passions. This plan is spelled out in a new \u003ca href=\"http://dmlhub.net/publications/connected-learning-agenda-research-and-design\">report\u003c/a>, by Mimi Ito, the research director of the Digital Media and Learning Hub at the University of California Irvine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While students would still learn core subjects like math and science, \u003ca href=\"http://www.itofisher.com/mito/weblog/2012/03/connected_learning.html\">Connected Learning\u003c/a> provides ways for students to link their classroom lessons to their lives outside the school. Ito says the objective of Connected Learning is to, “meet young people where they are in terms of their peer culture, their interest in popular culture, social media, rather than say you have to meet us where we are as adults.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">“It’s important to diversify the kinds of entry points for the kinds of pathways that young people have.”\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ito uses the \u003ca href=\"http://thehpalliance.org/\">Harry Potter Alliance\u003c/a> to demonstrate how Connected Learning’s can be effective. She says, “the HPA connects young people who are inspired by the civic virtues portrayed in the Harry Potter books, and want to apply them to the real world.” This fan network organizes over social media platforms (Facebook, Livestream, Youtube, Twitter) to spread awareness and solutions to issues like, equality, and human rights, and to support of charitable causes. Literacy has been a central focus of the group. Their annual book drive has brought 85,000 donations since 2009 and contributions have helped build a library for a charter school in NYC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ito says another prime example of Connected Learning is at Youth Radio. The youth-driven media organization channels young peoples' passions into education and job training. For instance, the poetry group inside Youth Radio, Remix Your Life, helps strengthen students’ writing skills, public speaking and presentation skills while providing an outlet for us to express what we're passionate about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\"Meet young people where they are in terms of their peer culture, their interest in popular culture, social media, rather than say you have to meet us where we are as adults.”\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s where Connected Learning could help close the opportunity gap. Ito says, “it’s important to diversify the kinds of entry points for the kinds of pathways that young people have.” She adds that “having their interests, their identities validated in the context of academic achievement, civic engagement” is essential to keeping students engaged. This could lead to better student \u003c!--more-->performance. But even more than improved grades, the goal for Connected Learning Ito states, is “not about individual achievement, it’s about contributing in the real world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>EXCERPT FROM \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://dmlhub.net/publications/connected-learning-agenda-research-and-design\">CONNECTED LEARNING: AN AGENDA FOR RESEARCH AND DESIGN\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CASE STUDY:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A toy replica of a 1950s pickup truck with a 100-gram cast iron weight in its bed races down a wooden plank and crashes into an upright textbook that rests precariously on the edge of a high stool. The book wobbles and then topples several feet before smacking the floor with a loud slap. As it falls, the book collides with the raised end of a yardstick whose middle rests over a makeshift fulcrum, creating a seesaw-like lever. The impact catapults a small bottle of hand-sanitizer a few inches into the air before falling and bouncing on the floor. “Hmm,” says the 11-year-old student who released the car. The student and her classmates have been challenged to build a Rube Goldberg machine—a complex machine that performs a simple task—that can dispense hand sanitizer from a bottle with a pump-top. One of the student’s teammates suggests, “Let’s try a larger stool.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is Boss Level, a special two-week period that takes place at the end of each trimester at \u003ca href=\"http://q2l.org/\">Quest to Learn\u003c/a>, a 6th- through 12th-grade public school that opened in Manhattan in the fall of 2009. Quest is the first school in the country to organize its entire curriculum to be “game-like.” It is also attempting to incorporate many of the connected learning principles into an urban public school. Boss Levels are the times during the school year when these principles are most fully realized. During Boss Level, regular classes are suspended, classrooms are rearranged into work spaces, teachers fall into the background, and students work in small teams on a single “challenge” that culminates in a showcase and party for the school’s educators, staff, and family members. In addition to Rube Goldberg machines, Quest educators have challenged\u003cbr>\nstudents to write and perform short plays based on fairy tales, to design and orchestrate a series of outdoor games for an end-of-the-year field day, to research and construct a travel website featuring three NYC neighborhoods, to build a sculpture from recycled materials, and so forth. In each case, Boss Levels attempt to weave together connected learning principles with the strictures of school-based practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>PEER SUPPORTED\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students drive activity during Boss Levels more than at any other time during the year. While educators put students onto teams and define the challenges, students take the lead in designing, discovering, and evaluating possible solutions. Students provide each other with ongoing feedback about each other’s ideas and work styles. They engage in delicate, and often difficult, negotiations over what their team should try next, who should do what, and who can tell or ask someone else to do something. While failure is commonplace, and while conflicts sometimes arise, educators resist intervening extensively. In general, students are active and highly engaged, and the classroom is often vibrant and boisterous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>INTEREST POWERED\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Quest educators define Boss Level challenges, students have extensive opportunities for connecting Boss Level projects to their own interests, many of which are dissociated from conventional schooling practices. For example, when a Boss Level challenge asked students to write, stage, and perform short plays based on fairy tales, students wove numerous interests and cultural forms from their out-of-school lives into the productions. One scene took place in a medieval coffee shop called “Moonbucks”; plots and characters drew inspiration from popular books, video games, music, and movies; several students with an interest in fashion worked on costumes; a student who was enrolled in an after school program for gymnastics helped choreograph stage fights; students who participated in online fan fiction communities worked on scripts; students who were interested in media production helped with recording and mixing sound effects; all students produced daily podcasts that provided updates about their projects to family members. In doing so, Boss Level blurred conventional divisions between education and peer cultures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>ACADEMICALLY ORIENTED\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boss Levels confer academic legitimacy on creative activities that are typically absent or marginalized at conventional schools. By treating Boss Level as the culminating academic experience for every trimester, and by showcasing the students’ work to family members and members of the New York City design community, Quest bestows academic legitimacy on forms of work that are not easily measured by standardized assessments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, Quest attempts to link Boss Level challenges to more widely recognized academic domains and competencies. For example, the Rube Goldberg machine challenge required students to put into practice knowledge about physics and simple machines that they had been learning about over the course of the trimester. Similarly, Boss Levels encourage students to approach design challenges from the perspective of “systems thinking,” a twenty-first century literacy that educators emphasize in their instruction throughout the year. So, for instance, when tinkering with a Rube Goldberg machine, or when writing a play, or when designing a game for the field day, educators encouraged students to think of each design challenge in terms of its components, rules, goals, feedback mechanisms, and other aspects of a dynamic system. In doing so, they connect hands-on activity with forms of knowledge that are recognized in various academic and professional contexts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Realizing connected learning principles in a public school setting is not without its challenges. For one, Boss Levels can be seen as taking time away from preparing for state tests. While Quest hopes its students will score highly on tests, its students are evaluated against students who attend schools that place greater emphasis on testing. If the school cannot produce competitive test scores, many families will not apply to the school and the Department of Education could force it to change its leadership or even close its doors. Given these realities, Quest is under constant pressure to scale back on less canonical offerings such as Boss Level, and it has had to diminish the number and duration of Boss Levels as it has matured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, the school has had to educate some parents about the educational value of experiences like Boss Level. Less-privileged families, in particular, have pushed the school to focus more on canonical pedagogic offerings, in part because their children’s options in the NYC school system largely depend on test scores. Further, families from various backgrounds have expressed unease with some of the student-centered aspects of Boss Level. The frenetic, messy, and often noisy character of Boss Levels can appear to some as chaotic and undisciplined rather than as engaging and invigorating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quest educators have responded to these challenges by attempting to educate parents about the forms of learning supported by Boss Levels, and over time many parents have come to see, and even celebrate, Boss Levels as important and unique educational opportunities. Educators have also had to make Boss Levels more structured and adult-managed as the school has matured, partly to ease parental concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite these challenges, Boss Levels offer an encouraging example of how connected learning principles can be integrated into public schooling. Unlike most canonical schooling practices, Boss Levels organize students’ activity around a shared purpose, and they provide students with numerous opportunities for active and creative problem solving. Students, rather than educators, drive the process. Solutions are not defined beforehand and resources are not bound by the school’s walls. As a result, students have the opportunity to participate in the challenging, messy, collaborative, and open-ended processes that we believe characterize connected learning at its best.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1365441896,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":26,"wordCount":1773},"headData":{"title":"Connected Learning: Tying Student Passions to School Subjects | KQED","description":"By Ashley Williams, Youth Radio What if your extracurricular activities weren't just extra but a part of your academics too? New thinking on education intends to bring students' interests into the classroom. It's called Connected Learning and promotes the idea that students will excel in school if what they are learning is relevant to their","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"27762 http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/?p=27762","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/04/03/connected-learning-tying-to-student-passions-to-school-subjects/","disqusTitle":"Connected Learning: Tying Student Passions to School Subjects","path":"/mindshift/27762/connected-learning-tying-to-student-passions-to-school-subjects","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_27968\" class=\"wp-caption left\" style=\"max-width: 620px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-27968\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2013/03/Q2L_1-620x413.png\" alt=\"Q2L_1\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"> \u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch5>\u003ca href=\"http://www.youthradio.org/news/connected-learninglearning-inside-and-outside-classroom\">By Ashley Williams, Youth Radio\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp class=\"dropcap-serif\">What if your extracurricular activities weren't just extra but a part of your academics too? New thinking on education intends to bring students' interests into the classroom. It's called Connected Learning and promotes the idea that students will excel in school if what they are learning is relevant to their lives, experiences, and passions. This plan is spelled out in a new \u003ca href=\"http://dmlhub.net/publications/connected-learning-agenda-research-and-design\">report\u003c/a>, by Mimi Ito, the research director of the Digital Media and Learning Hub at the University of California Irvine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While students would still learn core subjects like math and science, \u003ca href=\"http://www.itofisher.com/mito/weblog/2012/03/connected_learning.html\">Connected Learning\u003c/a> provides ways for students to link their classroom lessons to their lives outside the school. Ito says the objective of Connected Learning is to, “meet young people where they are in terms of their peer culture, their interest in popular culture, social media, rather than say you have to meet us where we are as adults.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">“It’s important to diversify the kinds of entry points for the kinds of pathways that young people have.”\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ito uses the \u003ca href=\"http://thehpalliance.org/\">Harry Potter Alliance\u003c/a> to demonstrate how Connected Learning’s can be effective. She says, “the HPA connects young people who are inspired by the civic virtues portrayed in the Harry Potter books, and want to apply them to the real world.” This fan network organizes over social media platforms (Facebook, Livestream, Youtube, Twitter) to spread awareness and solutions to issues like, equality, and human rights, and to support of charitable causes. Literacy has been a central focus of the group. Their annual book drive has brought 85,000 donations since 2009 and contributions have helped build a library for a charter school in NYC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ito says another prime example of Connected Learning is at Youth Radio. The youth-driven media organization channels young peoples' passions into education and job training. For instance, the poetry group inside Youth Radio, Remix Your Life, helps strengthen students’ writing skills, public speaking and presentation skills while providing an outlet for us to express what we're passionate about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\"Meet young people where they are in terms of their peer culture, their interest in popular culture, social media, rather than say you have to meet us where we are as adults.”\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s where Connected Learning could help close the opportunity gap. Ito says, “it’s important to diversify the kinds of entry points for the kinds of pathways that young people have.” She adds that “having their interests, their identities validated in the context of academic achievement, civic engagement” is essential to keeping students engaged. This could lead to better student \u003c!--more-->performance. But even more than improved grades, the goal for Connected Learning Ito states, is “not about individual achievement, it’s about contributing in the real world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>EXCERPT FROM \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://dmlhub.net/publications/connected-learning-agenda-research-and-design\">CONNECTED LEARNING: AN AGENDA FOR RESEARCH AND DESIGN\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CASE STUDY:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A toy replica of a 1950s pickup truck with a 100-gram cast iron weight in its bed races down a wooden plank and crashes into an upright textbook that rests precariously on the edge of a high stool. The book wobbles and then topples several feet before smacking the floor with a loud slap. As it falls, the book collides with the raised end of a yardstick whose middle rests over a makeshift fulcrum, creating a seesaw-like lever. The impact catapults a small bottle of hand-sanitizer a few inches into the air before falling and bouncing on the floor. “Hmm,” says the 11-year-old student who released the car. The student and her classmates have been challenged to build a Rube Goldberg machine—a complex machine that performs a simple task—that can dispense hand sanitizer from a bottle with a pump-top. One of the student’s teammates suggests, “Let’s try a larger stool.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is Boss Level, a special two-week period that takes place at the end of each trimester at \u003ca href=\"http://q2l.org/\">Quest to Learn\u003c/a>, a 6th- through 12th-grade public school that opened in Manhattan in the fall of 2009. Quest is the first school in the country to organize its entire curriculum to be “game-like.” It is also attempting to incorporate many of the connected learning principles into an urban public school. Boss Levels are the times during the school year when these principles are most fully realized. During Boss Level, regular classes are suspended, classrooms are rearranged into work spaces, teachers fall into the background, and students work in small teams on a single “challenge” that culminates in a showcase and party for the school’s educators, staff, and family members. In addition to Rube Goldberg machines, Quest educators have challenged\u003cbr>\nstudents to write and perform short plays based on fairy tales, to design and orchestrate a series of outdoor games for an end-of-the-year field day, to research and construct a travel website featuring three NYC neighborhoods, to build a sculpture from recycled materials, and so forth. In each case, Boss Levels attempt to weave together connected learning principles with the strictures of school-based practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>PEER SUPPORTED\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students drive activity during Boss Levels more than at any other time during the year. While educators put students onto teams and define the challenges, students take the lead in designing, discovering, and evaluating possible solutions. Students provide each other with ongoing feedback about each other’s ideas and work styles. They engage in delicate, and often difficult, negotiations over what their team should try next, who should do what, and who can tell or ask someone else to do something. While failure is commonplace, and while conflicts sometimes arise, educators resist intervening extensively. In general, students are active and highly engaged, and the classroom is often vibrant and boisterous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>INTEREST POWERED\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Quest educators define Boss Level challenges, students have extensive opportunities for connecting Boss Level projects to their own interests, many of which are dissociated from conventional schooling practices. For example, when a Boss Level challenge asked students to write, stage, and perform short plays based on fairy tales, students wove numerous interests and cultural forms from their out-of-school lives into the productions. One scene took place in a medieval coffee shop called “Moonbucks”; plots and characters drew inspiration from popular books, video games, music, and movies; several students with an interest in fashion worked on costumes; a student who was enrolled in an after school program for gymnastics helped choreograph stage fights; students who participated in online fan fiction communities worked on scripts; students who were interested in media production helped with recording and mixing sound effects; all students produced daily podcasts that provided updates about their projects to family members. In doing so, Boss Level blurred conventional divisions between education and peer cultures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>ACADEMICALLY ORIENTED\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boss Levels confer academic legitimacy on creative activities that are typically absent or marginalized at conventional schools. By treating Boss Level as the culminating academic experience for every trimester, and by showcasing the students’ work to family members and members of the New York City design community, Quest bestows academic legitimacy on forms of work that are not easily measured by standardized assessments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, Quest attempts to link Boss Level challenges to more widely recognized academic domains and competencies. For example, the Rube Goldberg machine challenge required students to put into practice knowledge about physics and simple machines that they had been learning about over the course of the trimester. Similarly, Boss Levels encourage students to approach design challenges from the perspective of “systems thinking,” a twenty-first century literacy that educators emphasize in their instruction throughout the year. So, for instance, when tinkering with a Rube Goldberg machine, or when writing a play, or when designing a game for the field day, educators encouraged students to think of each design challenge in terms of its components, rules, goals, feedback mechanisms, and other aspects of a dynamic system. In doing so, they connect hands-on activity with forms of knowledge that are recognized in various academic and professional contexts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Realizing connected learning principles in a public school setting is not without its challenges. For one, Boss Levels can be seen as taking time away from preparing for state tests. While Quest hopes its students will score highly on tests, its students are evaluated against students who attend schools that place greater emphasis on testing. If the school cannot produce competitive test scores, many families will not apply to the school and the Department of Education could force it to change its leadership or even close its doors. Given these realities, Quest is under constant pressure to scale back on less canonical offerings such as Boss Level, and it has had to diminish the number and duration of Boss Levels as it has matured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, the school has had to educate some parents about the educational value of experiences like Boss Level. Less-privileged families, in particular, have pushed the school to focus more on canonical pedagogic offerings, in part because their children’s options in the NYC school system largely depend on test scores. Further, families from various backgrounds have expressed unease with some of the student-centered aspects of Boss Level. The frenetic, messy, and often noisy character of Boss Levels can appear to some as chaotic and undisciplined rather than as engaging and invigorating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quest educators have responded to these challenges by attempting to educate parents about the forms of learning supported by Boss Levels, and over time many parents have come to see, and even celebrate, Boss Levels as important and unique educational opportunities. Educators have also had to make Boss Levels more structured and adult-managed as the school has matured, partly to ease parental concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite these challenges, Boss Levels offer an encouraging example of how connected learning principles can be integrated into public schooling. Unlike most canonical schooling practices, Boss Levels organize students’ activity around a shared purpose, and they provide students with numerous opportunities for active and creative problem solving. Students, rather than educators, drive the process. Solutions are not defined beforehand and resources are not bound by the school’s walls. As a result, students have the opportunity to participate in the challenging, messy, collaborative, and open-ended processes that we believe characterize connected learning at its best.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/27762/connected-learning-tying-to-student-passions-to-school-subjects","authors":["4354"],"categories":["mindshift_192","mindshift_193"],"tags":["mindshift_1015","mindshift_167","mindshift_787","mindshift_594","mindshift_256","mindshift_930"],"featImg":"mindshift_27968","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_23528":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_23528","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"23528","score":null,"sort":[1346793173000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"a-new-game-based-school-opens","title":"GameDesk Opens New Game-Based School ","publishDate":1346793173,"format":"aside","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cdiv id=\"attachment_23609\" class=\"module image aligncenter mceTemp mceIEcenter\" style=\"width: 620px\">\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-23609\" title=\"Screen Shot 2012-09-04 at 1.33.59 PM\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2012/09/Screen-Shot-2012-09-04-at-1.33.59-PM-620x349.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-media-credit\">GameDesk\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003ch5>By Andrew Miller\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp class=\"dropcap\">GameDesk, \u003ca href=\"http://www.gamedesk.org/\">an organization\u003c/a> that's developing a variety of game-based learning initiatives, is venturing into new terrain with the opening of a new school and the development of new digital tools, with millions of dollars in funding from both the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and AT&T.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.gamedesk.org/playmaker-school/\">PlayMaker School\u003c/a>, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, will open in Los Angeles on September 7, with 60 students in 6th grade, and will operate as a \"school within a school\" at \u003ca href=\"http://www.newroads.org/\">New Roads\u003c/a>, an independent middle school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like \u003ca href=\"http://www.q2l.org/\">Quest to Learn\u003c/a>, the game-based school in New York, PlayMaker will incorporate principles of game-based learning into the entire instructional model, but with an additional focus on making and discovering. The goal is to engage students in both high-tech and low-tech games and modular, instructional activities. Individual students will work with an “Adventure Map” that will guide them to choose their own path, allowing for students to control how they learn and when they learn it. These modules will be not only individual tasks, but will also include group work. In a unit on kinetic and potential energy, for example, students will watch videos, play games, create digital roller-coasters, and create real-life models.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With ongoing formative assessments tied not only to the Common Core, but also practical digital skills, collaboration, critical thinking, and \u003ca href=\"http://casel.org\">social emotion learning principles,\u003c/a> the focus is meant to go beyond traditional schooling goals. Instruction will focus on providing context for the content, whereby students understand the relevance of what they're learning. Teachers will play the roles of questioners, facilitators, and reflective agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More information will soon be released about the specifics of the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SCALING UP\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lucien Vattel, the executive director of GameDesk, said he wants to scale the company's tools and learning models to schools and other groups across the country. To that end, the company \u003ca href=\"http://www.gamedesk.org/gamedesk-collaborates-with-att-to-build-a-new-learning-center-and-national-digital-learning-platform/\">received $3.8 million from AT&T\u003c/a> to fund two new initiatives: a learning laboratory called Learning Center, which will include a \"classroom of the future\" where new digital tools will be developed, tested, evaluated, and aligned with academic standards; and free access to an online portal of \u003c!--more-->digital learning content, as well as support for teachers to learn how to integrate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We see this as being a clearing house for all the best work in this space and we want the entire education community to contribute content to the site, from the professional developer, to the educator in Kansas, to the creative and tenacious parents and kids at home,” Vattel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv id=\"attachment_23612\" class=\"module image alignright mceTemp\" style=\"width: 300px\">\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2012/09/Screen-Shot-2012-09-04-at-1.33.33-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-23612\" title=\"Screen Shot 2012-09-04 at 1.33.33 PM\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2012/09/Screen-Shot-2012-09-04-at-1.33.33-PM-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-media-credit\">GameDesk\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the professional development for the PlayMaker School, GameDesk also initiated a collaborative called \u003ca href=\"http://www.gamedesk.org/projects/dreamlab/\">DreamLab\u003c/a> focused on not only creating many of the GameDesk’s projects, but also how to implement and sustain them. Instead of simply creating and implementing, however, they design in collaboration with student and teachers, to ensure that real needs are being met well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although still in its infancy as a component of GameDesk’s work, DreamLab hopes to provide professional development for teachers on site. In addition, they hope to build a portal where teachers can collaborate on lesson design and share their ideas for implementing the games in the classroom. In the past months as they prepared for the new school opening, new teachers received intensive professional development, learned to design games, played games, and understood the pedagogical principles around using games for learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GAMES IN STEM\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.gamedesk.org\">GameDesk\u003c/a> is also \u003ca href=\"http://www.gamedesk.org/projects/\">creating and collaborating on games\u003c/a> that target the Common Core standards. \u003ca href=\"http://www.gamedesk.org/projects/on-site-school-pilots/\">Mathmaker\u003c/a>, which GameDesk created, is focused on having students take on the roles of engineers to learn math concepts. This game, as well as others, is directed at amplifying STEM curriculum, and is being piloting and used in large urban high schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GameDesk also uses another math-focused game called \u003ca href=\"http://www.gamedesk.org/projects/motion-math-in-class/\">Motion Math In-Class\u003c/a>, created by the team at Stanford University Learning, Design and Technology Program, which is part of its math curriculum. This interactive iPad app\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/04/dont-forget-the-fun-factor-in-educational-games/\"> helps students learn fractions, proportions and percentages\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another unique game is \u003ca href=\"http://www.gamedesk.org/projects/dojo/\">Dojo\u003c/a>, which uses play and biometrics to work on emotion regulation (not to be confused with \u003ca href=\"http://www.classdojo.com/\">Class Dojo\u003c/a>, which helps teachers with classroom management). So far, it has been used successfully with diverse populations and even youth within or exiting the juvenile justice system. Players experience real-life challenges that test their emotions, but also gives them strategies and feedback on how to overcome these challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More to come, as GameDesk continues to grow.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1346800428,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":19,"wordCount":770},"headData":{"title":"GameDesk Opens New Game-Based School | KQED","description":"GameDesk By Andrew Miller GameDesk, an organization that's developing a variety of game-based learning initiatives, is venturing into new terrain with the opening of a new school and the development of new digital tools, with millions of dollars in funding from both the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and AT&T. The PlayMaker School, funded by","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"23528 http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/?p=23528","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/09/04/a-new-game-based-school-opens/","disqusTitle":"GameDesk Opens New Game-Based School ","path":"/mindshift/23528/a-new-game-based-school-opens","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cdiv id=\"attachment_23609\" class=\"module image aligncenter mceTemp mceIEcenter\" style=\"width: 620px\">\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-23609\" title=\"Screen Shot 2012-09-04 at 1.33.59 PM\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2012/09/Screen-Shot-2012-09-04-at-1.33.59-PM-620x349.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-media-credit\">GameDesk\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003ch5>By Andrew Miller\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp class=\"dropcap\">GameDesk, \u003ca href=\"http://www.gamedesk.org/\">an organization\u003c/a> that's developing a variety of game-based learning initiatives, is venturing into new terrain with the opening of a new school and the development of new digital tools, with millions of dollars in funding from both the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and AT&T.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.gamedesk.org/playmaker-school/\">PlayMaker School\u003c/a>, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, will open in Los Angeles on September 7, with 60 students in 6th grade, and will operate as a \"school within a school\" at \u003ca href=\"http://www.newroads.org/\">New Roads\u003c/a>, an independent middle school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like \u003ca href=\"http://www.q2l.org/\">Quest to Learn\u003c/a>, the game-based school in New York, PlayMaker will incorporate principles of game-based learning into the entire instructional model, but with an additional focus on making and discovering. The goal is to engage students in both high-tech and low-tech games and modular, instructional activities. Individual students will work with an “Adventure Map” that will guide them to choose their own path, allowing for students to control how they learn and when they learn it. These modules will be not only individual tasks, but will also include group work. In a unit on kinetic and potential energy, for example, students will watch videos, play games, create digital roller-coasters, and create real-life models.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With ongoing formative assessments tied not only to the Common Core, but also practical digital skills, collaboration, critical thinking, and \u003ca href=\"http://casel.org\">social emotion learning principles,\u003c/a> the focus is meant to go beyond traditional schooling goals. Instruction will focus on providing context for the content, whereby students understand the relevance of what they're learning. Teachers will play the roles of questioners, facilitators, and reflective agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More information will soon be released about the specifics of the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SCALING UP\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lucien Vattel, the executive director of GameDesk, said he wants to scale the company's tools and learning models to schools and other groups across the country. To that end, the company \u003ca href=\"http://www.gamedesk.org/gamedesk-collaborates-with-att-to-build-a-new-learning-center-and-national-digital-learning-platform/\">received $3.8 million from AT&T\u003c/a> to fund two new initiatives: a learning laboratory called Learning Center, which will include a \"classroom of the future\" where new digital tools will be developed, tested, evaluated, and aligned with academic standards; and free access to an online portal of \u003c!--more-->digital learning content, as well as support for teachers to learn how to integrate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We see this as being a clearing house for all the best work in this space and we want the entire education community to contribute content to the site, from the professional developer, to the educator in Kansas, to the creative and tenacious parents and kids at home,” Vattel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv id=\"attachment_23612\" class=\"module image alignright mceTemp\" style=\"width: 300px\">\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2012/09/Screen-Shot-2012-09-04-at-1.33.33-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-23612\" title=\"Screen Shot 2012-09-04 at 1.33.33 PM\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2012/09/Screen-Shot-2012-09-04-at-1.33.33-PM-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-media-credit\">GameDesk\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the professional development for the PlayMaker School, GameDesk also initiated a collaborative called \u003ca href=\"http://www.gamedesk.org/projects/dreamlab/\">DreamLab\u003c/a> focused on not only creating many of the GameDesk’s projects, but also how to implement and sustain them. Instead of simply creating and implementing, however, they design in collaboration with student and teachers, to ensure that real needs are being met well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although still in its infancy as a component of GameDesk’s work, DreamLab hopes to provide professional development for teachers on site. In addition, they hope to build a portal where teachers can collaborate on lesson design and share their ideas for implementing the games in the classroom. In the past months as they prepared for the new school opening, new teachers received intensive professional development, learned to design games, played games, and understood the pedagogical principles around using games for learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GAMES IN STEM\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.gamedesk.org\">GameDesk\u003c/a> is also \u003ca href=\"http://www.gamedesk.org/projects/\">creating and collaborating on games\u003c/a> that target the Common Core standards. \u003ca href=\"http://www.gamedesk.org/projects/on-site-school-pilots/\">Mathmaker\u003c/a>, which GameDesk created, is focused on having students take on the roles of engineers to learn math concepts. 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