Resonant Games

Resonant Games
Author: Eric Klopfer
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2018-07-17
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 0262037807

Principles for designing educational games that integrate content and play and create learning experiences connecting to many areas of learners' lives. Too often educational videogames are narrowly focused on specific learning outcomes dictated by school curricula and fail to engage young learners. This book suggests another approach, offering a guide to designing games that integrates content and play and creates learning experiences that connect to many areas of learners' lives. These games are not gamified workbooks but are embedded in a long-form experience of exploration, discovery, and collaboration that takes into consideration the learning environment. Resonant Games describes twenty essential principles for designing games that offer this kind of deeper learning experience, presenting them in connection with five games or collections of games developed at MIT's educational game research lab, the Education Arcade. Each of the games—which range from Vanished, an alternate reality game for middle schoolers promoting STEM careers, to Ubiquitous Bio, a series of casual mobile games for high school biology students—has a different story, but all spring from these fundamental assumptions: honor the whole learner, as a full human being, not an empty vessel awaiting a fill-up; honor the sociality of learning and play; honor a deep connection between the content and the game; and honor the learning context—most often the public school classroom, but also beyond the classroom.

Twenty Yawns

Twenty Yawns
Author: Jane Smiley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Bedtime
ISBN: 9781338171549

Featuring lyrical text and beautiful illustrations, this bedtime tale from Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley and Caldecott Honor recipient Lauren Castillo evokes the splashy fun of the beach and the quietude of a moonlit night, with twenty yawns sprinkled in for children to discover and count. As her mom reads a bedtime story, Lucy drifts off. But later, she awakens in a dark, still room, and everything looks mysterious. How will she ever get back to sleep? -- Publisher.

Reality Is Broken

Reality Is Broken
Author: Jane McGonigal
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2011-01-20
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1101475498

“McGonigal is a clear, methodical writer, and her ideas are well argued. Assertions are backed by countless psychological studies.” —The Boston Globe “Powerful and provocative . . . McGonigal makes a persuasive case that games have a lot to teach us about how to make our lives, and the world, better.” —San Jose Mercury News “Jane McGonigal's insights have the elegant, compact, deadly simplicity of plutonium, and the same explosive force.” —Cory Doctorow, author of Little Brother A visionary game designer reveals how we can harness the power of games to boost global happiness. With 174 million gamers in the United States alone, we now live in a world where every generation will be a gamer generation. But why, Jane McGonigal asks, should games be used for escapist entertainment alone? In this groundbreaking book, she shows how we can leverage the power of games to fix what is wrong with the real world-from social problems like depression and obesity to global issues like poverty and climate change-and introduces us to cutting-edge games that are already changing the business, education, and nonprofit worlds. Written for gamers and non-gamers alike, Reality Is Broken shows that the future will belong to those who can understand, design, and play games. Jane McGonigal is also the author of SuperBetter: A Revolutionary Approach to Getting Stronger, Happier, Braver and More Resilient.

Ebony

Ebony
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2000-11
Genre:
ISBN:

EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.

International UFO Library: Dec / Jan 1993

International UFO Library: Dec / Jan 1993
Author: Joseph J. Randazzo
Publisher: UFO Library
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2022-08-12
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 1545738785

The International UFO Library Magazine. Featuring Articles From Around The World. Page 8. Mars – Did We See Something by J.J Hurtak PhD Page 10. Russia – What’s Happening by Brian Grish. Page 15. USA – Ultraterrestials by Sean David Morton. Page 18. France – Complete Update by Jacques Drabier. Page 20. England – Mysticism of UFO’s by Richard Lawrence. Page 23. Israel – Apocalypse from Space by Marie-Helen Parent. Page 26. Peru – Extraterrestrial Abductions by Charles Silva. Page 29. Canada – The Insiders Report, Part 2 – by Bob Oechsler. Page 45. Divinity – by Loma Gopi Saravati. Page 48. Star Trek Comdr. Riker- Jonathan Frakes by M. Marks. Page 50. Universal – What’s It Like On Their Planet by Joseph J. Randazzo. Page 52. Puerto Rico – A UFO Base In Mona Passage by Scott Corrales. Page 56. Pleadians – History of the Pleadians by J. Randolph Winters. Page 58. Washington D.C – Protest by Elaine Douglass. Page 60. Mexico – The Great Flap Over Mexico by Britt and Lee Elders. The collectors information and articles in the International UFO Library Magazine published decades ago where the effort and prodigy of traveling to over twenty countries around the world with Emmy award winning film crews for over five years by Writer, Executive Producer, Joseph J Randazzo and Company. Hundreds of one on one interview where conducted to seek out and amass a library of information questioning the UFO / ET subject matter with a goal to question and then compare cases, notes and references from Researchers, Abductees and Contactees. The information collected was far ahead of its time and still shows a straightforward presentation to learn form. Let us learn from this information and grow into the absolute best we can become as a humanity. And always acknowledging and thankful for the endless work, effort and dedication for the UFO Library President, CoLee Viedelle – Smith, Product Support by David Ovelmeier. Editor, RT. WWII Fighter Pilot, Mr. Edward T Foster

Best Life

Best Life
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2008-06
Genre:
ISBN:

Best Life magazine empowers men to continually improve their physical, emotional and financial well-being to better enjoy the most rewarding years of their life.