Université
Du Québec À Montréal (UQAM) / University Of Quebec in Montreal
200
Sherbrooke West, Montreal, QC H2x 1x5, Canada
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Katie Salen, Co-founder of both
The Institute of Play and Connected Camps To Keynote Serious Play Conference at
UQAM in Montreal July 10-12, 2019
LOS ANGELES – March 18, 2019 -- Katie Salen, Founder of both The
Institute of Play and Connected Camps, an online learning platform powered by
youth gaming experts, will keynote Serious
Play Conference’s Montreal conference on game-based learning July 10-12,
2019.
Salen will discuss the role of Minecraft, a sandbox video game created
by Swedish game developer Markus Peterson, reimagined by Microsoft for use in
schools, today widely used to teach children computer coding as well as
classroom subjects ranging from science to the arts. Salen will discuss the
game’s role in "Raising a Generation of Good Gamers.”
Salen, currently a professor, in the Department of informatics, UC
Irvine, is a member of the Connected Learning Lab and Chief Designer and
co-founder of Connected Camps.
Earlier, Salen was Founding Executive Director of Institute of Play and
led the design of Quest to Learn, an innovative New York City public school.
She is also co-author of Rules of Play, The Game Design Reader and Quest to
Learn: Growing a School for Digital Kids, all from MIT Press, and a forthcoming
book, Affinity Online: How Connection and Shared Interest Fuel Learning (NYU
Press).
The Montreal Conference will be the 13th Serious Play Conference. Universities
that have hosted Serious Play include DigiPen, USC, Carnegie Mellon, University
of North Carolina, and University at Buffalo and George Mason University.
Media Contact:
Sue Bohle
Executive Director
Serious Play Conference
Serious Play Conference | www.seriousplayconf.com