Serious Games

SXSW Edu: (Video)Game Changers for Creative Student Pathways

Below is a list of resources made available for the panel hosted at the 2019 SXSW Edu, "(Video)Game Changers for Creative Student Solutions." The listing of these resources does not embody an endorsement by the Wilson Center.

 

Resources & References

ED Games Expo 2019: Announcing the Learning Game Awards to Showcase the Arts in the Games

Leveling Up Health: Trends in Games for Health from the Games for Change Festival

"The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease." -- Sir William Osler, co-founders of Johns Hopkins Hospital, "Father of Modern Medicine"

 

Games for Change

Elizabeth Newbury is the Director and Program Associate for the Serious Games Initiative (SGI) for the Wilson Center, leading Wilson's use of games in engaging the public around policy research. As lead of the Serious Games Initiative, she leverages games as a tool for the public communication of science and policy research. Current projects include the Fiscal Ship, a game about the federal budget developed and maintained in collaboration with the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy with the Brookings Institution.

Games Round Up: Conservation & Community

The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it. -- Barry Commoner

Games Round Up: Women of STEM

Screenshot from Portal 2 (c) Valve Corporation

Cutting through the Noise: Engaging the Public in Arctic Science

To have an informed public eager to engage in discourse around Arctic science, it is vital to not only make scientific findings widely available, but relevant. The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars’ Science and Technology Innovation Program, Serious Games Initiative, and Polar Initiative are proud to partner to host a panel on the public communication of environmental sciences in Alaska.

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