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

[Radhika G]

great sources - I've found teaching in immersive environments (such as
games) works best if you get them "in there" and then thinking, writing,
discussing...
This allows them to think through the connections - even if they are
already gamers themselves

(there was one particular class a couple years ago, in which I had advanced
gamers playing Eve Online and various games on international servers, in
Asian contexts etc - and so all I needed to do was to have them think about
the play in relation to various sets of readings and we had a wonderful
class overall - they demonstrated stuff to others in the class that might
not have come through traditional textbooks even about gaming)


This semester I am having some of them work with games for change and it
has worked out well in some parts as well.

The key is not just the readings - its HOW you get them to think about all
this in the classroom assignments - in traditional classroom discussion and
good old writing assignments.

I am sure you know this already.

r

Radhika Gajjala

Professor
School of Media and Communication
and
American Culture Studies Program
Bowling Green State University,
Bowling Green Ohio
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Co-editor of ADA: Journal of Gender and New Media
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On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 4:31 AM, Jonathan Mendels <mendelsj at post.bgu.ac.il>
wrote:

> 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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