Games Gaming and Gamers

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Games Gaming and Gamers

• Why You Want Them in Your Library

Liz Danforth etdanforth_at_gmail.com
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Why Games?
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Why Games?

• Play!

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Why Games?

• Play!

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Why Games?

• Play!

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Why Games? because u C

• Community
• Communication
• Collaboration
• consumption
• and because thats where the Customers are.

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Gaming What Games Are We Talking About?
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we are not talking about
casinos and bingo and blackjack
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What Are We Talking About Then?

• Mainly
• video games, also popularly known as
• computer games and console games

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What Are We Talking About Then?

• online games - Runescape, World of Warcraft,
  LotRO, Guild Wars, Everquest, EVE Online
• card board games - Apples to Apples, Fluxx,
  Blockus, Settlers of Catan, Tsuro, Set, Quiddler
• roleplaying games - Dungeons Dragons, Call of
  Cthulhu, Star Wars, LotR
• trading card games - Magic, Yu-Gi-Oh
• traditional games chess, checkers, dominoes
• and virtual worlds - Second Life, Club Penguin

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The great debate

• Is Second Life a game?

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World of Warcraft lt -- Game
Second Life --gt Toy
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Gamers?
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Gamers!
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More Gamers!
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What are we learning?

• logical processing, creative problem solving,
  responsibility, math, economics, cognitive
  thinking skills, leadership, scientific method,
  communication, participatory creativity (fanfic,
  fanart, modding, design), value of cooperative
  efforts, management skills, social relationship
  skills, planning and resource management, media
  literacy, professional networking

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and your point is?

• Partnership for 21st Century Skills
• Business, government have identified needs
• Schools are having difficulty delivering
  individuals ready to work
• Libraries as third place
• Learning before competence, low consequences to
  failure while learning

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Objections

• Violence
• Stereotyping
• Solitary mushroom people
• Timesink
• Addiction
• Advergaming

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What are we learning?

• logical processing, creative problem solving,
  responsibility, math, economics, cognitive
  thinking skills, leadership, scientific method,
  communication, participatory creativity (fanfic,
  fanart, modding, design), value of cooperative
  efforts, management skills, social relationship
  skills, planning and resource management, media
  literacy, professional networking

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Gamers in the LIBRARY?!

• Entertainment
• Education
• Core services like storytimes
• Community commons
• If you do not offer them something of value now,
  you will be irrelevant to them for the rest of
  their lives. - Neiburger

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Read more

• 2007 ALA Techsource Symposium on Gaming, Learning
  and Libraries http//gaming.techsource.ala.org
• Game On Gaming in Libraries http//www.libgaming.
  blogspot.com/
• Game Studies http//gamestudies.org
• Got Game How the Gaming Generation is Changing
  Business Forever - Beck and Wade
• Dont Bother Me, Mom, Im Learning - Prensky
• Gamers in the LIBRARY?! - Neiburger
• Library Technology Report Gaming and Libraries
  Intersection of Services - Levine
• What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning
  and Literacy - Gee

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Why Games? http//whygames.pbwiki.com etdanforth_at_g
mail.com