Reality is Broken: GDC08 Rant by Jane McGonigal � SlideShare
Hey I found this link on Ralph Koster's site. For those who don't know Jane, she does the reality games, like the one where people blog about rising energy costs and she is a serious games designer and big thinker.
It reminded me of a talk at this year's TLT (Teaching and Learning with Technology) conference given by Laura Christopherson. Basically, she gave a detailed presentation about why World of Warcraft was relevant to education, but ... well one person in the audience, wanted to know how to use the actual game in the classroom - like, "Okay, class login to the game and let's all meet in Elwynn forest". hmmm - I would love that, but prolly not gonna happen. I asked my friend Lucas Gillispie about it and we agree that it's not "how to get education in games", but "how to get games in Education" ... Schools stifle so much happiness it's not funny. Games are happiness engines. How can we take some of the 'stuff' that runs that happy engine and mix it up with the classroom or other educational environment.
So, I'm really hoping that Laura will post her slides on slideshare for me to see.
Oh, and I saw this on slideshare as well - "What we can learn from game design?"
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