Katie Salen, the other co-founder of Q2L and a respected computer games designer, is militantly against the “19th-century industrial age model” of education, represented by the grade-obsessed No Child Left Behind policy in the US. But only because she feels “it isn’t adequate for the society we live in”.
“We are not just using games in our pedagogy because it’s fun or engaging, but because games teach kids that they live among systems – ecological, financial, technological – and that it’s important to keep those systems sustained and in balance. That’s the world that exists right now. We should be educating children to step into that world.”
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