On Sept 25 at 10am Pacific Daylight Time, Arturo Cortez will discuss their recent work on video games as media for development. Arturo has offered both a video of a recent talk on this topic and an article. Please engage at least one of these materials as a basis for your comments/questions.
To provide a window into the processes, Arturo introduces the Learning To Transform (LiTT) Video Gaming Lab, a social design-based experiment that builds models for equity-centered educator and student learning through the design of deeper relationships between informal and formal educational environments. In the video, a talk at the University of California Irvine, Arturo provides the history of this research project, as well as a theory of learning that animates the larger design of the project. In the article, they provides a framework, drawing on young people’s video gaming practices, to understand how the play, the imagination, and everyday collaboraction provide contexts for robust sociopolitical meaning making and action.
If you’d like to attend, please email lchcmike@gmail.com a Zoom link will be sent prior to the meeting. Please also send any feedback, comments or questions.
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