Director of EdGE Jodi Asbell-Clarke Authors Article for March/April 2013 issue of Dimensions
May 30, 2013
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CAMBRIDGE, MA–“Games and STEM Education: Building Knowledge Through Play” by Jodi Asbell-Clarke has been published in the March/April 2013 issue of Dimensions, the bimonthly magazine of the Association of Science-Technology Centers. The editorial focus of the March/April issue is the intersection of digital media and gaming and education.
Asbell-Clarke’s “Games and STEM Education: Building Knowledge Through Play” situates game design and development amidst education research in a series of successful ‘case studies’. Asbell-Clarke describes several of EdGE@TERC’s current and past games and delineates how these games were used as teaching and assessment tools as well as forums to build communities around scientific inquiry.
Jodi Asbell-Clarke is the Director of the Educational Gaming Environments (EdGE@TERC) research team. The team supports and studies STEM learning through gameplay by designing, developing and researching graphically-compelling games around advanced science concepts, inquiry, and thinking. To learn more, please visit: edge.terc.edu.
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