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Spotlight on Digital Play Innovators #5 Michael Gibson

Michael Gibson is a filmmaker and serious games expert.  He is a member of the North American Simulation and Gaming Association which is an online network of professionals dedicated to the design, implementation, and evaluation of games and simulations to improve learning results. Along with co-founders Allan Stitt and Frank Handy, he runs the online [...]

Jane McGonigal TED Talk

Games like World of Warcraft give players the means to save worlds, and incentive to learn the habits of heroes. What if we could harness this gamer power to solve real-world problems? Jane McGonigal says we can, and explains how.

Spotlight on Digital Play Innovators #5 Ralph H. Baer

Clockwise from the top -Magnavoz game console, a light gun, game cartridges, SIMON The Father of Video Games In 2006 Ralph H. Baer was awarded the National Medal of Technology by the President of the United States for his “groundbreaking and pioneering creation, development and commercialisation of interactive video games”.  In fact many believe he [...]

Spotlight on Digital Play Innovators #4: Hayo Reinders

Darren Elliott, who writes the great Lives of Teachers blog, recently interviewed Hayo Reinders, keynote speaker at the 4th International Wireless Ready symposium. An Interview With Hayo Reinders from darren elliott on Vimeo. One thing that comes out of the interview, that Hayo also mentioned in his keynote, is that existing games should be adapted, [...]

Spotlight on Digital Play Innovators #3 James Paul Gee

Later today (early tomorrow in some parts of the world), there’ll be an interesting opportunity to join James Paul Gee who’ll be in conversation with Steve Hargadon and Ed Hill about Video Games, Learning and Literacy. photo by Preoccupations Event: More Details are here Date: Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 Time: 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern [...]

Spotlight on Digital Play Innovators #2 ‘Lil Poison’

The World’s youngest professional video gamer Manyparents complain that their children waste too much time playing video games and not enough time on their schoolwork.  Maybe it’s because they are worried that their children won’t study hard at school.  If they don’t get good exam results they won’t grow up and get a good job [...]

Spotlight on Digital Play Innovators #1 Jane McGonigal

To launch a new series entitled ‘Spotlight on Digital Play Innovators’, here’s a brief profile of Jane McGonigal, Director of Game Research and Development at the Institute for the Future, whose ground-breaking work on alternate reality games (ARGs) has led to a lot of excitement about how the power of games can impact the real-world. [...]