[Year 12 Its] Re: Marc Prensky in Melbourne

[Tony Forster]

MARC PRENSKY (USA)
Tuesday February 28
5pm - 7pm
ACMI Federation Square, Melbourne
FREE ADMISSION

BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL - Phone ACMI Screen Education 8663 2441

Presented by ACMI, DE&T E-Learning and the Learning with Computer Games 
ASISTM Cluster

'Engage Me or Enrage Me'
Marc Prensky is a leading advocate of games for learning (or training) who 
argues that young people today expect different approaches to learning. In 
this presentation Marc approaches the modern situation where educators are 
struggling to find ways to get today's kids more involved in their 
schoolwork. The key, says Prensky, is not curriculum, certification or 
testing, but rather 'engagement'. He argues forcefully that this generation 
is NOT in need of better content, but of more engaging approaches, more 
understanding, and 21st century skills. To best help today's unengaged 
students learn, says Prensky, we need to provide them with learning that 
motivates them, and the first place to look for help is where the kids are 
already involved most - in their games. In this talk, through numerous
examples, Prensky shows specifically how games engage kids, and how 
educators can employ and benefit from not only existing games but also
the powerful educational principles behind them.

Marc Prensky is the author of "Engage Me or Enrage Me" and "Digital Game 
Based Learning" and the founder and CEO of Games2train, a game-based 
learning company whose clients include IBM, Bank of America, Nokia, and the 
USA Department of Defence. He is also the founder of The Digital Multiplier, 
an organization dedicated to eliminating the digital divide in learning 
worldwide.

(sorry for cross posts)