Teaching Comparative

Simulations (games for learning)

Games and Simulations for Situated Learning the Liberal Arts Classroom

Ed Webb who teaches in the Political Science & International Studies department at Dickinson College, sent me the link to the "Call for Participation" for this February conference, hosted by Dickinson. (Dickinson is in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.)

The front page of the conference wiki, welcomes you "to the conference wiki. All conference related information can be found here. Feel free to add your own content and make notes. If you have any questions, please send an email to Todd Bryant, (bryantt@dickinson.edu if that link doesn't work for you).

The conference description: "This conference will focus on how instructors from a variety of disciplines have used games and simulations to pursue new models of teaching and learning. Presenters will describe how specific immersive and interactive technologies—from commercial games to more academic simulations—can engender collaboration, the visualization of complex ideas, and the connecting of concepts across courses and disciplines. Participants also will experience the games and simulations from the perspective of the learner through hands-on training in the technologies demonstrated by the presenters. The conference will conclude with participants forming groups based on shared ideas for future pedagogical uses of the technology, including gaming across campuses as part of clubs or collaborative classes.

"Participants can expect to acquire a practical knowledge of specific games and simulations as well a broad familiarity with the pedagogical theory behind these examples. Participants will also be introduced to what their peers in their own and other disciplines are doing in this new area of instructional technology. "

I think the program appears fascinating and informative.

Check it out.

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Labels: pedagogy

posted by Ken Wedding @ 8:38 AM