Saturday, October 16, 2010

Day 2 : “What if Vygotskiy played video games?”

The guiding question for day two included “What formal features promote learning during video game play?  And “How is that learning influenced by factors intrinsic to the child/adolescent?”  Day to included presentations from Sandra Calvert, Douglas Gentile, Shelly Pasnik, and John Sherry.  All presentations were amazing and among the many enlightening things that were said, one specific quote has continued to take up some valuable cognitive space sense the day wrapped. Today’s quote of the day comes from John Sherry In reference to scaffolding  in/with games  and game mechanics.  John Sherry remarked “what would Vygotskiy say if he played video games?”  Feel free to contemplate while perusing the slides below…



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