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Two New Working Papers Posted

June 20, 2005

Will video games change the way we learn? In "Video Games and the Future of Learning" David Williamson Shaffer, Kurt R. Squire, Richard Halverson, and James P. Gee argue for a particular view of games—and of learning—as activities that are most powerful when they are personally meaningful, experiential, social, and epistemological all at the same time. Read the Working Paper.

Middle school students developed understanding of transformational geometry through design activities in Escher's World, a computationally rich design experiment explicitly modeled on an architectural design studio. In "Studio Mathematics: The Epistemology and Practice of Design Pedagogy as a Model for Mathematics Learning," David Williamson Shaffer examines three precursors to the development of mathematical understanding. Read the Working Paper.