The Games Libraries Play (And How They

The Games Libraries Play (and How They Align Them) Presented by: Kelly Czarnecki 11.05.09

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What is a game?

. . .an imaginative world where you can try things-explore and inquire

. . .learning by play

. . .more than one definition

What are electronic games played on?

What are electronic games played on? Nintendo Wii Personal Computer PlayStation 2 PlayStation 3 iPhone PlayStation Portable Nintendo DSi Apple’s iMac

Statistical Overview: Teens (12-17) and Gaming

From Teens, Mobile & Games: An Overview of Pew Internet Data (May 2009) http://tinyurl.com/yf7qmtk

73% Desktop/Laptop 60% 48% Mobile phone 71% Used For Gaming Devices Ownership 60% Portable Device 55% 86% Game Console 77%

“ Kids are hungry to learn but we need to speak their language” – Educator Donna Stevens

What Gaming Can Do. . .

Help enhance the curricula, not substitute it

Help kids be engaged

Help motivate

Apply what they’ve learned

Help youth be producers, not just consumers

Help youth be in a position of power

Learn to be something rather than just learn about

“ If we treat school activity in terms of learning, playing, and helping, then we can more thoroughly engage children in the learning process” – Sasha Barab, co-creator of Quest Atlantis

What are Schools Doing with Electronic Gaming? Q2L or Quest to Learn Mission: Students today can and do learn in different ways, often through interaction with digital media and games www.q2l.org

What are Schools Doing with Electronic Gaming?

“ Students have been challenged to read 25 books this year. Each student has a daily book log to record their reading on. For each completed book, students will earn game pieces that they can add to a collaborative game the school will be building in Gamestar Mechanic , a digital game”

Quest to Learn

What are Libraries Doing with Electronic Gaming?

Gamers Club:

Luther Jackson Middle School in Falls Church, Virginia

“ For one afternoon every week our middle school library becomes a gamer’s paradise”

“ It provides a space where we can meet kids in their own experience, on their own terms, and open up real conversations about what matters to all of us.”

“ Now we have a new group of library kids.”

Multimedia & Internet @ Schools, March 2009: http://tinyurl.com/yj67f6e

What are Libraries Doing with Gaming? Northwest School of the Arts and ImaginOn: a School and Public Library Partnership. Charlotte, NC

Afterschool gaming and tutoring program

Middle and High Schoolers

Board, card, and video games

Shift in focus of Physical Education classes

Promoting Physical Health and Learning

Dance Dance Revolution

What are Schools Doing with Electronic Gaming? Future City National Competition: using the Sims4 video game www.futurecity.org/ Article in School Library Journal: July 2009: http://tinyurl.com/yjhgmqv

“ Though the percentage of young people in virtual worlds is modest, the creativity demonstrated by those who are in them is staggering – and inspiring.” – Born Digital

What are Libraries Doing with Electronic Gaming?

Virtual Worlds:

Teen Second Life (http://teen.secondlife.com)

Ramapo Islands Suffern Middle School Suffern, New York

Science in Second Life High School for Global Citizenship: Brooklyn, NY Global Kids

What are Schools Doing with Electronic Gaming? www.whyville.net

Classes compete against one another

Whyville PlaneWorks and Whyville Biotech

What are Schools Doing with Electronic Gaming? http://scratch.mit.edu/galleries/view/29

“ Digital is the old way of thinking, mobile is the new way”-Pockets of Potential: Using Mobile Technologies to Promote Children’s Learning (January 2009, Joan Ganz Cooney report).

What are Schools Doing with Mobile Gaming?