New Book WE THE GAMERS on How Games Teach Ethics & Civics

[Kat Schrier Shaenfield]

Hello Games for Changers!

I have a new book out this week from Oxford University Press. I am super thrilled to share it with you and hear what you think about it!

We the Gamers: How Games Teach Ethics & Civics

Find out more at:

The We the Gamers book website (https://gamesforcivics.com/)

A mega-tweet summarizing the book

An interview with me about the book on Edutopia

A sneak-preview of page 99 of the book

Here is also a way to buy the book on the OUP website (30% discount: ASFLYQ6)

About the Book

Ethics and civics have always mattered, but perhaps now more than ever before we realize how much they matter.

 

But how can we teach civics and ethics? How are we already learning this?

My new book, We the Gamers, explores how we connect, communicate, analyze, and discover when we play games. Games can be used in ethics, civics, and social studies education to inspire learning, critical thinking, and civic change.

We the Gamers shares a range of examples including board and card games, online games, virtual reality and augmented reality games, and digital games like Minecraft, Executive Command, Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, Fortnite, When Rivers Were Trails, PolitiCraft, Quandary, and Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

We the Gamers also explores the obstacles to learning with games and how to overcome those obstacles by encouraging equity and inclusion, care and compassion, and fairness and justice.

Featuring helpful tips and case studies, We the Gamers shows educators the strengths and limitations of using games in civics education.

Let’s imagine how we might repair and remake our world through gaming, together.

Take care, Kat  

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Dr. Karen (Kat) Schrier
http://www.karenschrier.com

www.twitter.com/drgamermom

Associate Professor & Director, Games & Emerging Media program, Marist College

Author, We the Gamers (Oxford University Press)

Author, Knowledge Games (Johns Hopkins University Press)

Editor, Learning, Education, & Games book series (ETC Press/Carnegie Mellon)

Author, Designing Ourselves (Center for Technology & Society)

[Randy Kulman]

Karen,

Congrats!!  How can we help with reviews or other publicity?

Best,

Randy Kulman

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