Content tagged "Scot Osterweil"
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Higher Education Video Game Alliance names 14 CMS/W faculty, affiliates, and past speakers as fellows
List includes Professor T.L. Taylor, researcher Scot Osterweil, and CMS/W co-founder Henry Jenkins.
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Podcast: Jane McGonigal discusses “SuperBetter” with MIT’s Scot Osterweil
Jane McGonigal is the internationally acclaimed game designer and author, most recently of “SuperBetter: A Revolutionary Approach to Getting Stronger, Happier, Braver and More Resilient–Powered by the Science of Games”.
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Jane McGonigal discusses her new book “SuperBetter” with Scot Osterweil
Join us and Harvard Book Store as it hosts Jane McGonigal to discuss “SuperBetter” with our own Scot Osterweil of The Education Arcade.
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Scot Osterweil in the Wall Street Journal’s “The Hidden Cost of Apps for Children”
Industry now has “the ability to invade the kids’ space much more aggressively than ever before.”
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Civic Games
Insights, tools, and practices from gaming are increasingly integrated across different areas of life, leading to talk of the ‘gamification’ of everything — including civic media.
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Scot Osterweil keynote address at Media Literacy Conference, at MIT
Education Arcade program manager Scot Osterweil is slated to speak at MIT on October 22nd, giving the keynote address for a conference on youth media literacy.
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Launch of science game “VANISHED!” featured in local broadcast
Conducted in partnership with the Smithsonian Institution, “VANISHED!” has signed up more than 3,000 users just two days after it went live.
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Scot Osterweil receives MIT Excellence Award
We’re so proud to share the news that Education Arcade research director Scot Osterweil was presented with an MIT Excellence Award.
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“Augmented Reality Game Lets Kids Be the Scientists”
“It is both a development and a research project,” Osterweil told LiveScience. “What we want to see is whether, through this type of activity, kids evince real scientific reasoning.”
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Become a Game Master for an Educational Alternate Reality Game!
Join fellow MIT undergraduates to learn more about an exciting UROP opportunity for Spring 2011.
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Podcast: CMS 10th Anniversary: “Applied Humanities: Transforming Humanities Education”
Highlights from the CMS 10th anniversary symposium.
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CMS: Born for Collaboration
From its early days the Comparative Media Studies program has worked with partners from all over MIT. It has collaboration written in its genes.
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Ed Arcade’s Osterweil quoted in “High-Tech Simulations Linked to Learning”
“From our perspective, the goal was to come up with something the teacher can adopt without taking a big risk.”
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Scot Osterweil Gives Highest Rated Presentation at Serious Games Summit
The Education Arcade Project Manager Scot Osterweil’s “The Road From Zoombiniville” was the top rated presentation at this year’s Serious Games Summit.
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Education Arcade Gung-ho! this Spring
A futuristic race across the country sets the stage for Gung-ho!: A Google Maps Adventure, an Education Arcade game designed to teach students about U.S. Geography.
