[Air-L] Intro-level readings on games/gamification?

[Jonathan Mendels]

Hi Luis
I can recommend articles by James Paul Gee, Sebastian Deterding and Kevin
Werbach.
The Games for change <http://www.gamesforchange.org/> website offers a list
of publications and This site offers a good read about gamification in
education
<http://www.newmedia.org/game-based-learning--what-it-is-why-it-works-and-where-its-going.html>
.
I hope you will find them useful.
Best,
Jonathan

2015-04-13 1:49 GMT+03:00 Luis E. Hestres <luis.hestres at utsa.edu>:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm teaching an intro to communication technologies class for comm majors,
> and one of our last weeks is about games. This will include an introduction
> to the history of the industry and some content about its most visible
> aspects, like blockbuster console games. But I'd like to talk to them about
> other topics, like gamification or games that aim to do social good. Can
> anyone recommend some interesting & engaging freshman/sophomore level
> readings about these topics? Ideally some long-form journalism or
> accessible scholarly work.
>
> Thanks!
>
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Best,
Jonathan Mendels
PhD Candidate, Department of Communication
Ben Gurion University
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