Understanding games as systems, with complex interactions of game elements and rules.
Gaming the System demonstrates the nature of games as systems, how game designers need to think in terms of complex interactions of game elements and rules, and how to identify systems concepts in the design process. The activities use Gamestar Mechanic, an online game design environment with a systems thinking focus.

Gaming the System: Designing with Gamestar Mechanic (John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning)

Computers & Technology

Peppler, Kylie

Tekinbas, Katie Salen

Gresalfi, Melissa

Santo, Rafi

Games & Strategy Guides

MIT Press]

Helping students create interactive and animated stories about positive change in their communities.
Script Changers shows the ways that stories offer a lens for seeing the world as a series of systems. It provides opportunities for students to create interactive and animated stories about creating positive change in their communities. These projects utilize the Scratch visual programming environment.

Script Changers: Digital Storytelling with Scratch (John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning)

Tools and methods for creating electronic puppets.
Short Circuits offers students opportunities to undertake physical computing projects, providing tools and methods for creating electronic puppets. Students learn how to incorporate microprocessors into everyday materials and use them to enhance their language and writing skills with shadow puppet shows featuring their own DIY flashlights.

Short Circuits: Crafting e-Puppets with DIY Electronics (John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning)

Introducing students to the world of wearable technology.
Soft Circuits introduces students to the world of wearable technology. Using Modkit, an accessible DIY electronics toolkit, students learn to create e-textile cuffs, “electrici-tee” shirts, and solar-powered backpacks. Students also learn the importance of one component to the whole―how, for example, changing the structure of LED connections immediately affects the number of LEDs that light up.

Soft Circuits: Crafting e-Fashion with DIY Electronics (The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning)

Salen Tekinbas, Katie

Graphics & Design

The MIT Press

Commissioned by the Wallace Foundation, this book explores research indicating that youth are learning new ways to engage in the arts on their own time and according to their own interests. Digital technologies, such as production tools and social media, allow youth to create and share their art. Kylie Peppler urges educators and policy makers to take advantage of «arts learning opportunities» and imagine a school setting where young people are driven by their own interests, using tablets, computers, and other devices to produce visual arts, music composition, dance, and design. This book gives educators an understanding of what is happening with current digital technologies and the opportunities that exist to connect to youth practice, and raises questions about why we don’t use these opportunities more frequently.

New Creativity Paradigms: Arts Learning in the Digital Age (New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies)

Arts & Photography

Study & Teaching

Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers

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