Can you gamify very serious events? #globaled13 : 9th graders & grad students make the case

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Grad students and Dr. Jeff Stanzler at the University of Michigan have created a serious game that is seriously engaging for students about the Middle East.

Ninth grade Westwood Students and University of Michigan graduate students will present a powerful message today about how gamifying education can have benefits for all involved even when the topic is one of the toughest in the world to discuss: the Arab-Israeli Conflict.

My life this week has been about this presentation… I finished up the slides and clocked out at 5:55 pm last night and this morning at 5 am, I was in the document just to see some of my students in there too making their final tweaks to their words.

These ninth graders have something to say. I hope you’ll join us today at 9am EST. After the recording is released, I’ll share it here but I do hope some of you can attend and ask them questions. They’ve really got something to say and we’ve put everything we have and lots we didn’t have into this presentation.

There’s something the world needs to hear about serious games — we can improve our world through gaming and it doesn’t have to cost a lot of money with multimedia. The AIC Conflict Simulation is a simple, text based game with a powerful symbiotic learning experience. Dr. Jeff Stanzler and his students have a lot to be proud of with what they’ve done in this game and they’ll be presenting too. See you soon!

Link to see the recorded presentation in Blackboard Collaborate

Audio MP3

Video MP4

9 am EST 11/22/2013

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Vicki Davis

Vicki Davis has been an educator and IT director in Georgia since 2002. Today, she also works as an instructional technology coach, staying side-by-side with active teachers and students so her work stays grounded in real classrooms.

She's a mom of three, wife of one, and loves talking about the wise, transformational use of technology for teaching and doing good in the world.

She has blogged at the Cool Cat Teacher Blog since 2005 and hosts the 10 Minute Teacher Podcast and Cool Cat Teacher Talk (radio, public access TV, YouTube, and all major podcast platforms), interviewing remarkable educators around the world. Vicki focuses on what unites us — a quest for truly remarkable, life-changing teaching and learning. The goal of her work is to provide actionable, encouraging, relevant ideas for teachers, grounded in truth and shared with love.

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