The design for Quest to Learn, an innovative school in New York City that offers a “game-like” approach to learning. 
Quest to Learn, an innovative school for grades 6 to 12 in New York City, grew out of the idea that gaming and game design offer a promising new paradigm for curriculum and learning. The designers of Quest to Learn developed an approach to learning that draws from what games do best: drop kids into inquiry-based, complex problem spaces that are built to help players understand how they are doing, what they need to work on, and where to go next. Content is not treated as dry information but as a living resource; students are encouraged to interact with the larger world in ways that feel relevant, exciting, and empowering. Quest to Learn opened in the fall of 2009 with 76 sixth graders. In their first semester, these students learned―among other things―to convert fractions into decimals in order to break a piece of code found in a library book; to use atlases and read maps to create a location guide for a reality television series; and to create video tutorials for a hapless group of fictional inventors. This research and development document outlines the learning framework for the school, making the original design available to others in the field. Elements in development include a detailed curriculum map, a budget, and samples of student and teacher handbooks.

Quest to Learn: Developing the School for Digital Kids (The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning)

Computers & Technology

Salen Tekinbas, Katie

Torres, Robert

Wolozin, Loretta

Games & Strategy Guides

MIT Press]

This volume is for the advanced guitar duo that is seeking concert-worthy music and a technical challenge. The works transcribed here include selections by Beethoven, de Falla, Bach, Mozart, Handel, Gounod, and others. Much effort was exerted to find works that work well as guitar duos, are not available elsewhere, and yet will be well known to audiences. Like all of the volumes in this series, the works chosen come from the Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and 20th Century style periods. Standard notation only.

Mel Bay Graded Guitar Duos Volume 3

Arts & Photography

Small, Mark

Music

Mel Bay Pubns

Book by Setencich, Eli, Torres, Robert

Fresno: California's Heartland (Urban Tapestry Series)

Setencich, Eli

Photography & Video

Towery Pub

Pittsburgh Pennsylvania is known as 'steel country.' But its name also implies its penchant for producing hard-nosed, tough-minded individuals. Who no matter how dark things get, always manage to overcome. So it should come as no surprise that 13 year old Derrick, is a product of this town. When his mother succumbed to her crack habit, Derrick was left as the sole provider for himself and a pair of younger sisters. While simultaneously still in middle school and trying to keep his grades up. One fateful afternoon, Derrick is summoned to the principal's office. As he's en route, the young Pittsburgh native has no idea that once he steps through those doors... his life will never be the same.

Tomorrow's Not Promised

Literature & Fiction

United States

good2go publishing

India is still coming to grips with the gut punch of losing her younger brother Derrick. Just as they had finally been reunited after a most taxing hunt, on the formers behalf. Now, India vows to protect what's left of her family at all costs. But while India acts as guardian to a few younger kin, the clan itself remains incomplete. That is until a detective she hired, locates the final two youngest members, of her bloodline. However with this discovery, also comes news that both relatives have been jailed. India's heart drops when she learns that one of the siblings, is even facing a homicide charge. She must now use every resource at her disposal if she wants to exonerate the two, and reunite her family for good.

Tomorrow's Not Promised 2: The Flip Side

Dramas & Plays

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