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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.

Information technology --- Computers --- Internet in education --- Study and teaching --- Internet (Computer network) in education --- Automatic computers --- Automatic data processors --- Computer hardware --- Computing machines (Computers) --- Electronic brains --- Electronic calculating-machines --- Electronic computers --- Hardware, Computer --- IT (Information technology) --- Education --- Computer systems --- Cybernetics --- Machine theory --- Calculators --- Cyberspace --- Technology --- Telematics --- Information superhighway --- Knowledge management --- EDUCATION/Digital Media & Learning --- GAME STUDIES/Games in Education --- INFORMATION SCIENCE/Technology & Policy

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How the influential industry that produced such popular games as Oregon Trail and KidPix emerged from experimental efforts to use computers as tools in child-centered learning.

Children's software --- Computer-assisted instruction --- Computers and children --- Entertainment computing --- Development --- History. --- Children and computers --- Juvenile software --- Software for children --- Amusements --- Electronic data processing --- Children --- Computer software --- Computers and children. --- EDUCATION/Digital Media & Learning --- GAME STUDIES/Games in Education --- SOCIAL SCIENCES/Media Studies

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Helping students create interactive and animated stories about positive change in their communities.

Interactive multimedia. --- Digital storytelling. --- Education --- Computer uses in education --- Computers in education --- Educational computing --- Microcomputer uses in education --- Microcomputers in education --- Storytelling --- Hypermedia systems --- Interactive media --- Computer software --- Data processing. --- Scratch (Electronic resource) --- GAME STUDIES/Games in Education --- SOCIAL SCIENCES/Media Studies --- EDUCATION/Digital Media & Learning

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Tools and methods for creating electronic puppets.

Electronic circuits --- Electronic toys. --- Puppet making. --- Activity programs in education. --- Study and teaching (Middle school) --- Activity programs. --- Activity schools --- Education --- Puppetry --- Puppets --- Electron-tube circuits --- Activity programs --- Construction --- Design and construction --- Creative activities and seat work --- Project method in teaching --- Handicraft --- Electronic apparatus and appliances --- Toys --- Electric circuits --- Electron tubes --- Electronics --- Experimental methods --- GAME STUDIES/Games in Education --- SOCIAL SCIENCES/Media Studies --- EDUCATION/Digital Media & Learning

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An approach to performance-based assessments that embeds assessments in digital games in order to measure how students are progressing toward targeted goals.To succeed in today's interconnected and complex world, workers need to be able to think systemically, creatively, and critically. Equipping K-16 students with these twenty-first-century competencies requires new thinking not only about what should be taught in school but also about how to develop valid assessments to measure and support these competencies. In Stealth Assessment, Valerie Shute and Matthew Ventura investigate an approach that embeds performance-based assessments in digital games. They argue that using well-designed games as vehicles to assess and support learning will help combat students' growing disengagement from school, provide dynamic and ongoing measures of learning processes and outcomes, and offer students opportunities to apply such complex competencies as creativity, problem solving, persistence, and collaboration. Embedding assessments within games provides a way to monitor players' progress toward targeted competencies and to use that information to support learning.Shute and Ventura discuss problems with such traditional assessment methods as multiple-choice questions, review evidence relating to digital games and learning, and illustrate the stealth-assessment approach with a set of assessments they are developing and embedding in the digital game Newton's Playground. These stealth assessments are intended to measure levels of creativity, persistence, and conceptual understanding of Newtonian physics during game play. Finally, they consider future research directions related to stealth assessment in education.

Educational tests and measurements. --- Video games. --- Television games --- Videogames --- Electronic games --- Educational assessment --- Educational measurements --- Mental tests --- Tests and measurements in education --- Psychological tests for children --- Psychometrics --- Students --- Examinations --- Psychological tests --- Rating of --- GAME STUDIES/Games in Education --- EDUCATION/Digital Media & Learning --- SOCIAL SCIENCES/Media Studies --- testing --- educational assessment --- alternative assessment techniques --- testing methods --- student testing --- student evaluation --- educational games --- learning games --- game studies --- games in education --- performance-based assessments --- games in schools --- Computer games --- Internet games --- Games