Description
Book SynopsisThis 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.
Trade ReviewThis 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 Games serves as our entry point into a new conversation about the potential-and soon to be reality-of video games. elearn Magazine ... Schrier does a great job of clearing a space where we can chat about games' potential for giving us new perspectives on old problems. NEW SCIENTIST
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
Part I What Are Knowledge Games?
1. Contribution
2. Design
Part II Why Knowledge Games?
3. Problem Solving
4. Motivation
5. Social Interaction
Part III Perspectives, Potentials, and Pitfalls
6. Amateurs
7. Participation
8. Data
9. Knowledge
Appendix A. Categories and Example
Appendix B. Design Principles, Recommendations, Considerations, and Implications
Appendix C. Guiding Questions
Notes
Index
