Instructional Design Resources: Expanded Learning for a Digital Age

[Jeffrey]

Erica suggests this post, which nicely sums up and situates the aims of game-camp. Worth a close read and further - probably worth getting your hands on the full report. 

http://empathetics.org/2013/02/06/upgrading-afterschool-common-sense-shifts-in-expanded-learning-for-a-digital-age/

The days when summer and afterschool learning programs that only offered “safe custodial care” were considered fine are thankfully behind us. Tectonic social changes—including demographic shifts that have placed most women with school-age children in the labor force, research breakthroughs in the learning sciences and in socio-emotional and brain development, and daunting national achievement worries—have all converged to place a major new emphasis on the quality of a child’s learning experiences throughout the typical school day, after school, weekends, and across the year,
including summers.