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CUNY Games Network

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We connect educators from every campus and discipline at CUNY who are interested in games, simulations, and other forms of interactive teaching. We seek to facilitate the pedagogical uses of both digital and non-digital games, improve student success, and encourage research and scholarship in the developing field of games-based learning.

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  • Matthew K. Gold (he/him)
    Participant
    June 22, 2012 at 8:38 am

    Very interesting, George — thanks for posting!

    Benjamin Miller
    Participant
    June 22, 2012 at 10:37 am

    Yes, thanks for posting, George! This is very cool.

    I haven’t yet played Portal 2, but Portal 1 stood out to me as a strikingly clear example of how learning principles are embedded in game design. After beating the game, you can play it back with “commentary,” which turned out to include almost nothing about the story and instead a ton about the pedagogical and rhetorical choices intended by the sequence of levels and corridors (i.e. what is revealed when; what you have to see before you see something else), down to the shapes and colors of tiles and the placement of lights and loudspeakers. So this Teach with Portals initiative could be an excellent opportunity for conversation between teachers and designers, if nothing else.

    FWIW, they seem to have seeded the “lessons” page with examples from math and physics, but there are tabs set up in anticipation of Chemistry, Game Design, Language Arts, and Other.

    David B Smith
    Member
    June 22, 2012 at 12:13 pm

    I agree! I have submitted a request to access the beta, and am looking forward to exploring its potential.

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