Katie Salen on Gaming and Education

Extracted 13MAR2012 from http://sxsw.com/node/10853

Katie Salen, Executive Director of the Institute of Play, helps administer two schools based on gaming and education, but she likes to keep up-to-date with professional game designers as well...

One of the ideas that makes Salen stand out from most in gamification rests in her detailed examination of design in action...

The big take away being that gaming is about rules and making players interact critically to improvise and learn within those rules. Such a system, when combined with the collaborative and community-based values of game play, makes for solid teaching as well.