Game designer and English professor, Dr. Laquana Cooke discusses the role of games in education with a particular focus on how unpacking games provides rich educational possibilities. 

Cohosts: Jes Drass and Dr. Tom Pantazes

Closed Captions

Research Connection:

Bogost, I. (2010). Persuasive games: The expressive power of videogames. MIT Press. 

Cooke, Laquana. “NBA 2K14 for STEM.” In Learning, education & games vol. 3: 100 games to use in the classroom and beyond, edited by Schrier, Karen. Pittsburgh, PA: ETC Press (Carnegie Mellon).

Cooke, Laquana, Lisa Dusenberry, and Joy Robinson. "Gaming Design Thinking: Wicked Problems, Sufficient Solutions, and the Possibility Space of Games." Technical Communication Quarterly (2020): 1-14.

Sheldon, L. (2020). The multiplayer classroom: Designing coursework as a game. CRC Press. 

Sun, L., Guo, Z., & Hu, L. (2023). Educational games promote the development of students’ computational thinking: a meta-analytic review. Interactive Learning Environments, 31(6), 3476-3490.

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