S. Craig Watkins

Bookshelf: Ideas for Secondary School Teachers, with a Bent Toward the Digital

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In each of the last two academic years, I’ve made short lists of books I’ve liked, related mostly (but not exclusively) to secondary education and the digital world, to share with the faculty of Phillips Academy.  We buy a stack of each of the books, placed on the shelf outside my office, and share them … Read more

Katie Salen, ed., "The Ecology of Games: Connecting Youth, Games, and Learning"

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The first book that I read in the series of MacArthur/MIT Press’s Digital Media and Learning series was “The Ecology of Games: Connecting Youth, Games, and Learning,” edited by game designer and educator Katie Salen (open access version here). As with the other books in the series, it’s a very important contribution to the scholarly … Read more