TALK: “Quest to Learn—A Games-Based School for Digital Kids: Design Overview and Early Research Observations”
Date
Time
Location
Cordially invites you to attend a talk:
“Quest to Learn—A Games-Based School for Digital Kids: Design Overview and Early Research Observations”
presented by
Dr. Robert Torres and Christo Simms
5th floor, Pless Hall, 82 Washington Square
Thursday, March 11, 2010
6:30-7:30
To RSVP or more information, please contact Glynda Hull at 212-998-5882 or gah12@nyu.edu
Robert Torres serves as the Chief Research Officer for Quest to Learn, a games-based grades 6-12 public school. In May 2009 he completed a PhD in games and learning at NYU’s Teaching and Learning program.
Christo Simms is a PhD candidate at UC Berkeley’s School of Information, and a researcher for the Distributed Learning Network headed by Mizuko Ito of UC Irvine’s Humanities Research Institute.
Led principally by the practices of today’s digital kids, a new games-based school called Quest to Learn (Q2L) has been carefully designed to capitalize on those practices as ways to engage students in deep forms of learning. Drawing from contemporary research and theories of learning as a social and technologically mediated endeavor, a design group at the Institute of Play made up of game designers, learning scientists and content experts, have spent the past two years architecting Q2L.
