65 West 11th Street
5th Floor
Wed, Mar 2
6:00 PM
- 8:00 PM
Ticket Price: Free
Lang College and Parsons Design + Technology present the fourth in a series of Playdate Seminars. In this lecture Gee will argue that under certain conditions, video games are a liberating force in society. Come listen and join the revolution.
James Paul Gee is the Tashia Morgridge Professor of Reading at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has published widely in linguistics and education. His most recent books both deal with video games and learning. What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy (2003) offers 36 reasons why good video games produce better learning conditions than many of today's schools. His new book, Why Video Games Are Good for Your Soul shows how good video games marry pleasure and learning and have the capacity to empower people.
Playdate is a lecture series developed by Ken Wark, Eugene Lang College in collaboration with Katie Salen, Design and Technology Program, Parsons School of Design.
