When I’m teaching about literacy and technology, I find it incredibly useful to share videos with my students.  Sometimes, educational research can seem very distant or impersonal to pre-service and inservice teachers.  But when they have the chance to hear scholars talk about their work and see them actively engage in research, it often creates a space for critical discussion.

The New Learning Institute has created a wonderful video series that features noted scholars such as Jim Gee, Mimi Ito, Henry Jenkins, John Seely Brown, and many more.  Here are two recent videos that feature faculty in the Games+Learning+Society research group, Constance Steinkuehler and Kurt Squire.

Constance Steinkuehler from New Learning Institute on Vimeo.

Kurt Squire from New Learning Institute on Vimeo.

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