The document discusses the intersection of education, technology, games, and society. It mentions how educational games can incorporate teaching, learning, research, collaboration and different learning styles. It also explores the use of commercial games, simulations, and social networks in education. Finally, it raises questions about the role of play, technology, assessment, and the kind of society we want to live in.

2. teaching, learning, research, presentation of research, discovery, exploring complexity, communication, collaboration, field work, different styles of learning, shared intelligence

3. Grand Theft Auto

4. The Education Arcade (MIT-Microsoft), Edutopia.org (George Lucas)

5. iPads, kids and smartphones, microgaming

6. social networks, digital games, simulations

7. commercialism and higher education

8. COTS (commercial, off the shelf) games, console games

9. “edutainment”

10. educational games

11. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 18th century philosopher, statesman, educator: educate the mind AND the body

12. from facts to problem-solving

13. play

14. work / play

15. technology and teaching

16. “digital immigrants”“digital natives”

17. radio, tv, computers, internet

18. chalkboard, whiteboard

19. technology and culture

20. think, learn, interact

21. create, collaborate, communicate

22. games of chance

23. side-scrolling

24. first-person shooter

25. power gamers (Halo), casual gamers (Angry Birds)

26. simulation games

27. doctors, military, astronauts

28. explore hypothetical situations

29. “no winning”

30. puzzle or word games

31. you have 35 oranges and 7 buckets, how many oranges can you fit in each bucket?

32. history games

33. Civilization (1991)

35. World of Warcraft (WOW) (2004)

36. MMORPG

37. SimCity (1989)

38. immersion

39. game play as assessment, not learning

40. collaborative testing

41. “cheats,” plagiarism

42. teachers become learners, learners become teachers

43. education, play, what kind of society do we want to live in?