Gaming at the Speed of
Light: A Panel on Networked
Educational Gaming using
Internet2
Fall 2006 Internet2 Member Meeting
Dec. 6, 2006
Why Gaming?
Need for new modes of engaging learners
• Marc Prensky
• Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants
• Don’t Bother Me Mom, I’m Learning
• Engage Me or Enrage Me
• http://www.marcprensky.com/
Why Gaming?
Need for new modes of engaging learners
“Whereas TV turned kids of the fifties and
sixties into a nation of screen watchers,
videogames have created a cadre of screen
manipulators.”
J.C. Herz, Joystick Nation
Virtual Environments
Need for new modes of engaging learners
Open Croquet Project
http://www.opencroquet.org/
The Roman Forum
A quick trip to antiquity
•Developed by the Visualization Portal at UCLA
•Believed to be the most complex model of the
archeological site ever created.
http://www.ats.ucla.edu/portal/default.htm
Discover Babylon
A game about history and archaeology
•Funded and Developed by the Federation of American Scientists
•UCLA, LA Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative, Walters Art Museum,
and Escape Hatch Entertainment
http://www.discoverbabylon.org
Games for Health
REMISSION
ACLS TRAINER BY LEGACY
INTERACTIVE
http://www.gamesforhealth.org/index3.html
Trends in Education
“Serious” Educational Gaming
Second Life
101 ways to use Second Life in the Collegiate Classroom
http://trumpy.cs.elon.edu/metaverse/gst364Win2005/handout.html
Virtual U
Multiplayer Game
where student
teams compete to
run a university
http://www.virtual-u.org/
Educational Games and I2
UN World Food Program Food-Force Game
http://www.food-force.com/
Resources and URLs
Educational Gaming
Second Life
http://secondlife.com/
SimTeach
http://www.simteach.com/wiki/
Serious Games
http://www.seriousgames.org
WaterCooler
http://www.watercoolergames.org
Potential Funding
Educational Gaming
MacArthur Foundation Digital Learning Initiative
http://www.macfound.org
NEH Digital Humanities Initiative
http://www.neh.gov/grants/digitalhumanities.html
Marcus Childress, Emporia State
University
Daniel Lauglin, Manager of the NASA
Learning Technologies
Randy Stout, Research and
Development Coordinator, Kansas
Board of Regents