All ur classrooms 2
"All us classrooms r belong to us": Teaching
and Learning in Social Media, Virtual Worlds
and Digital Games 
Sarah "Intellagirl" Robbins
March 2009
intellagirl@gmail.com
www.intellagirl.com
Anyone who makes a distinction between
games and learning
doesn't know the first thing about either.

Marshall McLuhan
of US kids 12-17
play video games.
Pew 2008
Games
Games are scaffolded 
Games use failure
for learning 
Games offer clear 
rewards and 
motivations 
Games are dialogic 
It's not games but schools that are 
the newfangled notion, the untested 
fad, the violator of tradition.
Chris Crawford
The Art of Computer Game Design
How did it come about that such a 
crazy process like schooling would 
become necessary? Then I realized that 
it was something like engineering people - 
that our society doesn't only produce 
artifact things, but 
artifact people. 


And that it doesn't do that by the 
content of the curriculum, but by 
getting them through this ritual 
which makes them believe that learning 
happens as a result of being taught...



Ivan Illich Deschooling Society
Images based on 
"Galaga" by Namco
Images based on 
"PacMan" and "Ms PacMan" by Namco
It's not the technology that is disruptive.
It's not the students that are disruptive.
It's the institution that is disruptive.
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This is NOT NEW
This is NOT NEW
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PROSUMER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b97KIlJuYs
Kevin didn't
learn this
in school!
What if all of
our students were
as engaged?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEtDEdyf3bM&feature=channel_page

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Don't Teach

FACILITATE
Trust them!
Empower them!
Learn WITH them!
Learn FROM them!
PEDAGOGY
TECHNOLOGY
Sarah "Intellagirl" Robbins
intellagirl@gmail.com
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