Tag Archives: Games for Social Change
Transforming Education Beyond Common Core: Crony Capitalists Promote Gaming in the Classroom
It is true: the technology can offer promising results in many applications, for example in medicine or flight simulation. But the overall thrust was that games provide advantages in “cultivating dispositions” – games for “social change,” as the name of the group and festival indicates. As for such subjects as history, one wonders: can we really go back in history, or just the history that the game designer decides to create for us? Continue reading
Posted in Common Core, Education, News and Analysis
Tagged Arne Duncan, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Common Core Aligned Textbooks, Department of Education, Entertainment Software Association, ESA, Games for Learning Summit, Games for Social Change, Michael Gallagher, Office of Education Technology
