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Digital Tools to Support Literacy and Citizenship Skills

January 5, 2009

Social and technological changes are transforming what it means to know, think, and learn. Digital information technologies, including video games, are ushering in these changes. Kurt Squire’s research works to leverage video game technologies, design principles, and gaming techniques to support middle school students in learning scientific literacy and citizenship skills. These skills include the ability to understand and participate in scientific argumentation, to think through novel problems in scientific domains, and to use digital tools and models. Squire’s work aims to create, foster, and extend these practices through studies of game players, use of games in classrooms, and controlled experiments. More information is available here.