Teacher Pioneers

PART I. BUILDING GAMES FROM SCRATCH

• 1. WarLords!: Deconstructing Digital Games for Classroom Use By Seann Dikkers
• 2. Finding the Journal of Odysseus: Making and Using Alternate Reality Games in the Classroom By John Fallon
• 3. Beyond Gameplay—Using Role-Playing Game Creation to Teach Beowulf in a High School English Class By Kip Glazer
• 4. Immersive Learning—Using Role-Playing Games to Teach Creative Writing, Literature, and History By Trent Hergenrader
• 5. The Ward Game: How McMurphy, McLuhan, and MacGyver Might Free Us From McEducation By Paul Darvasi

PART II. USING PREEXISTING PLATFORMS 6. Conservation of Momentum By Cameron Pittman

• 7. Gone Home and the Apocalypse of High School English By Paul Darvasi
• 8. A Space to Create: Teaching With Minecraft By Jason Wilmot
• 9. Teaching Earth Science With Minecraft By Megan Pusey
• 10. Unlocking a Mystery: Designing a Resilient Place-Based Game By John Martin
• 11. Adventures in ARIS: The Affordances of Designing Place-Based Augmented Reality Games in the University Classroom By Laini Kavaloski

PART III. BROADENING THE GENRE

• 12. A First-Year Teacher’s Experience With PBL and Lego Robotics By William Vann
• 13. E-textiles to Teach Electricity: An Experiential, Aesthetic, Handcrafted Approach to Science By James Howell, Colby Tofel-Grehl, Deborah A. Fields, and Gabriella J. Ducamp
• 14. Kingdoms of Adarya: Considering the Ethics of a Game for Schooling By Lucas Cook and Sean C. Duncan
• 15. From Improvisational Puzzle to Interest-Driven Inquiry BY TIM SAUNDERS AND JEREMIAH KALIR
• 16. Teaching the Iterative Process Through Game Design and Development By Steve Isaacs
• 17. Teachers as Hackers: A New Approach to Teacher Professional Development Using a Hackathon Model By Kip Glazer and David Ng
• 18. Rewriting the Rules of School: A New Game to Play By Seann Dikkers
• Conclusion: Good Game: On the Limitations of Puzzles and Possibilities for Gameful Learning By Jeremiah Kalir