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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Quest to learn
    sub title: developing the school for digital kids
  name:
    name part: Salen, Katie.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    place:
      place term: Cambridge, Mass
    publisher: MIT Press
    date issued: ©2011
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xx, 142 pages).
  abstract: The design for Quest to Learn, an innovative school in New York City that offers a "game-like" approach to learning. Quest to Learn, an innovative school for grades 6 to 12 in New York City, grew out of the idea that gaming and game design offer a promising new paradigm for curriculum and learning. The designers of Quest to Learn developed an approach to learning that draws from what games do best: drop kids into inquiry-based, complex problem spaces that are built to help players understand how they are doing, what they need to work on, and where to go next. Content is not treated as dry information but as a living resource; students are encouraged to interact with the larger world in ways that feel relevant, exciting, and empowering. Quest to Learn opened in the fall of 2009 with 76 sixth graders. In their first semester, these students learned--among other things--to convert fractions into decimals in order to break a piece of code found in a library book; to use atlases and read maps to create a location guide for a reality television series; and to create video tutorials for a hapless group of fictional inventors. This research and development document outlines the learning framework for the school, making the original design available to others in the field. Elements in development include a detailed curriculum map, a budget, and samples of student and teacher handbooks.
  note: Katie Salen [and others].
  subject:
    topic: Information technology
    topic: Study and teaching
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Computers
    topic: Study and teaching
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Internet in education
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: EDUCATION/Digital Media & Learning
  subject:
    topic: GAME STUDIES/Games in Education
  subject:
    topic: INFORMATION SCIENCE/Technology & Policy
  classification: LB1028.5 .Q84 2011eb
  classification: 371.33/44678
  identifier: 9780262515658
  identifier: 0262515652
  identifier: 0262294168
  identifier: 9780262294164
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/8909.001.0001
  record info:
    record content source: OCoLC-P
    record creation date: 100416
    record change date: 20221121161758.3
    record identifier: in00004600556
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng