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CivWorld
Using sandbox simulation games to build traditional and 21st century literacy skills in underprivileged youth.

Competitive Fandom
Competitive fandom is a way of describing participation in fantasy sports play that draws from both what we know about both fan culture and gaming communities.

Digital Game-Based Learning
Supporting education through participation in game-based learning environments, analysis of game cultures, and the design of original media.

Local Games Lab
Using games to re-engage people with local communities.

Cognition & Learning in MMOs
This project seeks to explore the ways in which MMORPGs can serve as contexts for the development of a productive approach to media literacy.

KidGrid
An Apple iPhone/iPod app to support teachers’ decision making, formative assessment practices, and local data systems.

Simulations of School Leadership
This research looks at how virtual worlds might help us build informal social relationships with people.

Youth Filmmaking as Digital Literacy
This project is exploring the use of games to introduce educational leaders to fundamental principles and theories of school and institutional leadership through simulated worlds.
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Kurt Squire

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Kurt Squire is an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the Educational Communications and Technology division of
Curriculum and Instruction and Associate Director for Educational
Research and Development at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery.

Squire's research investigates the design of game-based learning
environments from a socio-cultural perspective, and he's the author of
over 75 scholarly works. Recently Squire received an NSF CAREER grant
to study scientific citizenship through playing Citizen Science, a
role playing game for scientific citizenship. With support from the
MacArthur Foundation, Squire also produced ARIS, a mobile learning
platform that is currently available on iTunes. Squire is a former
Montessori and primary school teacher and was co-director of the
Education Arcade. Squire is the vice president and a founding member
of the Learning Games Network.

Squire earned his doctorate in Instructional Systems Technology from Indiana University; his dissertation research examined students' learning through a game-based learning program he designed around Civilization III. Squire co-founded Joystick101.org with Jon Goodwin and wrote a monthly column with Henry Jenkins for Computer Games Magazine.

In addition to writing over 75 scholarly articles and book chapters, he has given dozens of talks and invited addresses in North America, Europe, and Asia. Squire's current research interests center on the impact of contemporary gaming practices on learning, schooling and society.