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Intel Learning Studio – Thrive
The Center for Games and Impact at ASU has partnered with Intel to innovate around their online teacher professional development courses. Intel, a leader in online teacher PD has trained millions of teachers around the globe through its Engage program. ASU Center for Games and Impact is a leader in investigating, innovating, and cultivating games for […]
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Small “g” Versus Big “G” Games
The Center for Games and Impact at ASU and E-Line Media partnership is building a Game Infused Theory of Change (download handout ), an impact-based approach, and a human and technological infrastructure to address the challenge of developing effective impact-friendly business models for game-based services with the ultimate goal of being able to achieve sustainable […]
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Storied Truths
This work adopts the stance that contemporary scholarship must reflect the prevailing paradigm of knowing as participatory—as situated and distributed, and reflecting an interpretivist epistemology. Indeed, in countering positivist and post-positivist approaches to research, the thesis aligns with current debates regarding scientific claims and evidence (e.g., Eisenhart & Towne, 2003). Our central claim is that […]
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Intel Collaboration around Unlocking Future Possibilities
We have been building a learning platform to drive two Intel-funded projects: one focused on powering up the promise of digital learning for teachers, and the second focused on unlocking future possibilities through digital learning for woman and girls in Africa. Driving the platform build is the assumption that learning is anchored by research-grounded best […]
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ARX: The Doctor’s Cure
The Doctors Cure is a 3D immersive game that positions players as protagonists in a virtual world where they must use persuasive writing and evidence from complex texts in the role of citizen investigator.
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ARX: The Mystery of Taiga River
The Mystery of Taiga River takes place in a 3D immersive world where students become environmental scientists who lead a scientific investigation to save a virtual park with ecological problems causing the fish to die out.