I lead a research team of graduate students (and both high school & undergrad volunteers) that investigates the forms of culture & cognition that arise in online games such as RuneScape, World of Warcraft, and Lineage ][. Current studies focus on: informal science,  digital & print literacy, computational literacy, collective problem solving, distributed apprenticeship, and pop cosmopolitanism.

This work is part of a larger UW-Madison initiative called the “Games, Learning & Society” (GLS) group that studies how young people engage in meaningful ways with new forms of interactive digital media, ranging from console games to mobile devices to fantasy baseball to you tube to 3D virtual worlds. As part of this initiative, I chair the annual GLS Conference, hosted every summer here in Madison WI.

Older Posts

• 09 Nov new undergrad course for spring: C&I 375 “videogames & learning”
• 17 Aug new worked example: Math as Narrative
• 13 Aug developmental timeline on digital literacy
• 29 Jul National Research Council’s New Committee on Games & Science Learning
• 15 Jul worked example on leadership in MMOs
• 30 Jun MacArthur Spotlight Post on Runescape Project
• 07 Jun GLS Conference 5.0 is here!

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