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Transformers, Tools, or Time Wasters? Designing Games for Education Mike Edwards Parsons The New School for Design School of Art, Media and Technology
Transformers, Tools, or Time Wasters?
Designing Games for Education
Mike EdwardsParsons The New School for DesignSchool of Art, Media and Technology
What is a game?
What can games do?
HA!
What is a game “about”?
What can’t games do?
What can we do with games?
Pick a game, any game.
What does this game teach?
(n.b. it’s not what you want it to teach, but what it does teach)
How does it teach?
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