Women and Gaming

The Sims and 21st Century Learning

J. Gee, Kenneth A. Loparo, Elisabeth R. Hayes

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2010
• Print ISBN: 9780230623415
• eBook ISBN: 9780230106734
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Education Theory & Practice
• Index: Social Sciences

The authors argue that women gamers, too often ignored as gamers, are in many respects leading the way in this trend towards design, cultural production, new learning communities, and the combination of technical proficiency with emotional and social intelligence.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Introduction: Gaming Goes Beyond Gaming
• 2 Video Games and Twenty-First-Century Skills: Why the Sudden Worldwide Interest in Video Games and Learning?
• 3 The Nickel and Dimed Challenge: Designing New Forms of Socially Conscious Play
• 4 A Young Girl Becomes a Designer and Goes Global: Succeeding at Twenty-First-Century Skills but Not at School
• 5 How Passion Grows: A Retired Shut-In Goes from Making a Purple Potty to Gaining Millions of Fans
• 6 Passionate Affinity Groups: A New Form of Community that Works to Make People Smarter
• 7 A Young Girl and Her Vampire Stories: How a Teenager Competes with a Best-Selling Author
• 8 From The Sims to Second Life: A Young Woman Transforms Her Real Life
• 9 What Does It All Mean?: What Women and The Sims Have to Teach Us about What Education and Learning Will Look Like in the Twenty-First Century
• Notes
• References
• Index