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June 24, 2007

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School of Games

One of the coolest things I’ve read in a while:

The nonprofit John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation today announced that it has awarded a grant of $1.1 million to assist in the development of a New York City public school aimed at teaching literacy and other skills through game design and game-inspired methods to children in grades 6-12.

The project is being led by the Gamelab Institute of Play. Gamelab is the insanely cool indie game developer in NYC. Loads of reading on their site, but here’s the choice nugget:

All players in the school — teachers, students, parents and administrators — will be empowered to innovate using 21st century literacies that are native to games and design. This means learning to think about the world as a set of in interconnected systems that can be affected or changed through action and choice, the ability to navigate complex information networks, the power to build worlds and tell stories, to see collaboration in competition, and communicate across diverse social spaces.

Okay, that actually manages to make it sound less cool… but seriously, come on, think about it. This is 100% the future.

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Posted June 24, 2007 at 1:36 | Comments (0) | Permasnark
File under: Briefly Noted, Society/Culture, Video Games
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