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Knowledge Games: How Playing Games Can Solve Problems, Create Insight, and Make Change
Karen Schrier
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Description for Knowledge Games: How Playing Games Can Solve Problems, Create Insight, and Make Change
Hardback. This accessible book critiques the limits and implications of games and considers how they may redefine what it means to produce knowledge, to play, to educate, and to be a citizen. Series: Tech.edu: A Hopkins Series on Education and Technology. Num Pages: 288 pages, 18 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: JNM; TBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. .
Imagine if new knowledge and insights came not just from research centers, think tanks, and universities but also from games, of all things. Video games have been viewed as causing social problems, but what if they actually helped solve them? This question drives Karen Schrier's Knowledge Games, which seeks to uncover the potentials and pitfalls of using games to make discoveries, solve real-world problems, and better understand our world. For example, so-called knowledge games-such as Foldit, a protein-folding puzzle game, SchoolLife, which crowdsources bullying interventions, and Reverse the Odds, in which mobile game players analyze breast cancer data-are already being ... Read more
Imagine if new knowledge and insights came not just from research centers, think tanks, and universities but also from games, of all things. Video games have been viewed as causing social problems, but what if they actually helped solve them? This question drives Karen Schrier's Knowledge Games, which seeks to uncover the potentials and pitfalls of using games to make discoveries, solve real-world problems, and better understand our world. For example, so-called knowledge games-such as Foldit, a protein-folding puzzle game, SchoolLife, which crowdsources bullying interventions, and Reverse the Odds, in which mobile game players analyze breast cancer data-are already being ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Tech.edu: A Hopkins Series on Education and Technology
Condition
New
Weight
508g
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421419206
SKU
V9781421419206
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About Karen Schrier
Karen Schrier is an assistant professor of media arts, the director of the Play Innovation Lab, and the director of the Games and Emerging Media Program at Marist College. She is the editor of the Learning, Education, and Games series.
Reviews for Knowledge Games: How Playing Games Can Solve Problems, Create Insight, and Make Change
This book is accessible on many levels and creates opportunities for game players, game designers and game scholars to understand their own knowledge-building processes when working with games.
Times Higher Education
... a substantial literature review of the vast - and rapidly growing - field of games that contribute to knowledge production.
Reflective Teaching
... Knowledge ... Read more
Times Higher Education
... a substantial literature review of the vast - and rapidly growing - field of games that contribute to knowledge production.
Reflective Teaching
... Knowledge ... Read more