TY  - GEN
AU  - Tekinbas,Katie Salen
AU  - Torres,Robert
AU  - Wolozin,Loretta
AU  - Rufo-Tepper,Rebecca
AU  - Shapiro,Arana
TI  - Quest to Learn : Developing the School for Digital Kids
SN  - mitpress/8909.001.0001
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - The MIT Press
KW  - Institutions & learned societies: general
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Educational strategies & policy
KW  - Computer games / online games: strategy guides
KW  - innovation
KW  - education innovation
KW  - hands on learning
KW  - educational games
KW  - learning games
KW  - primary education
KW  - primary school
KW  - secondary education
KW  - secondary school
KW  - middle school
KW  - high school
KW  - alternative schooling
KW  - game-based learning
KW  - game-based teaching
KW  - alternative education
KW  - public schools
KW  - New York schools
KW  - New York City schools
KW  - NYC schools
KW  - Q2L
KW  - curriculum map
KW  - budget
KW  - creative schools
KW  - games and learning
N1  - Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262515658
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/77877
ER  -