Games Network member Maura Smale (that’s me!) just published Get in the Game: Developing an Information Literacy Classroom Game in the latest issue of the Journal of Library Innovation. In the article I describe the process of creating a game to help undergraduates learn how to evaluate websites so they can find credible and reliable information for use in their coursework.
The inspiration for this game came from a CUNY Games Network meeting a couple of years ago, and I’m very grateful to my colleagues in the Games Network for continuing to inspire me to keep planning and making games for information literacy and library instruction. Thanks, everyone!
From a friend of the CUNY Games Network: As a wrap-up blog post in my series on traditional games, I’m giving away a free copy of my game on my blog. It’s fun for the classroom or for a game club. It’s a good example of a homebrew game that might encourage students to make their own games. I’m also hoping to draw more attention to The Game Crafter site as a possible option for producing classroom projects.
Please see the Boardgame Geek website linked from my blog as well. There you’ll find hundreds of excellent, largely undiscovered traditional games that are great for the classroom. If you’re looking for game recommendations for specific needs in the classroom, don’t hesitate to contact me.
Speaking of badges, good news folks: the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning is a Stage 1 winner in the MacArthur Foundation’s Digital Media and Learning Teacher Mastery badge competition (whew, that was a mouthful). Our proposal is to develop a badge system for an online professional development community in which teacher-learners develop their skills as history educators, instructional designers and peer collaborators. We are working with game developers and education researchers on the Stage 2 proposal which describes the functionality of the badges in more detail. And, if all goes very well, we’ll be heading to San Francisco at the end of February to pitch the project in front of a live panel of judges. Whatever happens, we are learning the ins and outs of badging as a way to motivate and recognize life-long learning.
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