Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Mark Twain

Play is the highest form of research.Albert Einstein

The game encourages him to think of himself as an active problem solver, one who persists in trying to solve problems even after making mistakes; one who, in fact, does not see mistakes as errors but as opportunities for reflection and learning.James Paul Gee, What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy

Whoever wants to understand much must play much.Gottfried BennGerman physician1886-1956

How can learning outcomes be measured?

Imagine a textbook that contained all the facts and rules about basketball read by students who never played or watched the game. How well do you think they would understand this textbook?... But we do this sort of thing all the time in school with areas like science and math.James Paul Gee, What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy

A child loves his play, not because it’s easy, but because it’s hard.Benjamin Spock

It is ironic how rigidly trained we have been to [...] argue ideas as though we believed a decision had to be made. Is Hamlet mad or not? The world will little note which decision we reach. But we will long remember whether we have explored the question in a way calculated to enrich our understanding of the play and our relationship with each other.

Kahn, M., "The Seminar: An Experiment in Humanistic Education." Journal of Humanistic Psychology

People tend to forget that play is serious.David HockneyContemporary British painter

Do not…keep children to their studies by compulsion but by play.Plato

We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.Albert Einstein

What do we know about whether learning in a game is transferred to real life?

With virtual reality, it is likely that we will soon communicate with one another through simulated environments, through “telepresence,” perhaps guiding our own software representations, our digital agents or avatars, to interact in a virtual world…The Future of the Public University in America: Beyond the Crossroads

Children at play are not playing about. Their games should be seen as their most serious minded activity.Michel de MontaigneFrench essayist1533-1592

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct.Carl JungSwiss psychoanalyst1875-1961

One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games. And it cannot be done by men out of touch with their instinctive selves.Carl JungSwiss psychoanalyst1875-1961

The only source of knowledge is experience.Albert Einstein

Play is training for the unexpected.Marc BekoffContemporary American biologist

How do you think students will respond to course-related games?

There is clearly a need to explore new forms of learning and learning institutions which are capable of sensing and understanding the change and of engaging in the strategic processes necessary to adapt or control it.The Future of the Public University in America: Beyond the Crossroads

I hear and I forget.

I see and I remember.

I do and I understand.Confucius

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The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery.Erik H. EriksonAmerican psychoanalyst1902-1994

I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my life. I have lost almost 300 games. 26 times I have been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I have failed over and over and over again. That is why I succeed...Michael Jordan

Are games more appropriate for some disciplines than others?

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher, 1788-1869

The virtue of a computer in the classroom is that it requires a user, not a watcher.Diane RavitchEducational Policy Analyst

PowerPoint has a pharmaceutical effect and should be FDA regulated.

Elliott Masie, Masie Center

With new technologies we've tended to do the same things more efficiently, when what we need is to do different things more effectively.Christopher Dede, Professor, Harvard School of Education

When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win. Ed Maccauley, Former NBA player

What will the IRB want to know about research within a game?

How do we use the power of technology without adapting to it so completely that we ourselves behave like machines lost in the levers and cogs, lonesome for the love of life, hungry for the thrill of directly experiencing the vivid intensity of the ever-changing moment?

Al Gore, Earth in the Balance

Some people see things as they are and say why. I see things that never were and say why not. George Bernard Shaw

Almost all creativity involves purposeful play.Abraham Maslow

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

Charles Darwin

Do you know any avid computer game players? Have you ever talked to them about their experiences?

To learn, I must dance with my subject... fly it, ride it, spin it upside down, write a poem about it, sing about it... shake my fist at it, think about it, draw it, animate it, eat it, see it through a microscope and a telescope, make love with it... experiment with it, fly over it and under it, see it in different lights, textures, fabrics... taste it in different flavors, understand it in different contexts... cry about it, despair of it, take joy in it, try it in another country... pour it on my pancakes.

Michael Medwid, 1991

My work is a game, a very serious game.M. C. Escher (1898 - 1972)

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.Steve Jobs (1955 - )

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.William Plomer, author

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Does compulsive gaming by students worry you?

Play is our brain’s favorite way of learning.Diane Ackerman

The day before something is a breakthrough, it was a crazy idea. Heard during NPR interview, April 2007

The traditional classroom paradigm is also being challenged by digital technology, driven not so much by the faculty… but by students.The Future of the Public University in America: Beyond the Crossroads

Ours is now a world that demands that people know how to learn new things—especially technical things—quickly and well; that they know how to collaborate, especially with people not just like themselves; and that they know how to think strategically and laterally as well as linearly and logically. These are all skills that good video games demand and teach.Marc Prensky, Don’t Bother Me Mom—I’m Learning

I believe learning comes from passion, not discipline.Nicholas Negroponte, The Media Lab

[Students] approach learning as a “plug-and-play” experience; they are unaccustomed and unwilling to learn sequentially—to read the manual—and, instead, are inclined to plunge in and learn through participation and experimentation. Although this type of learning is quite different […], it may be more effective for this generation, particularly when provided through a media-rich environment.The Future of the Public University in America: Beyond the Crossroads

Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do.Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point

Just as the university is challenged in adapting to new forms of teaching and research stimulated by rapidly evolving information technology, so too its organization, governance, management, and relationships to students, faculty, and staff will require serious reevaluation and almost certain change.The Future of the Public University in America: Beyond the Crossroads

Attention is not concentration. Attention is interest. If you have interest in something, then you’re attentive, and if you’re attentive, you discover many things.Unknown (cited in Leadership for Smart People: Book 1)

Change does not occur because we see the light…..but because we feel the heat.Jeff MacKenzie

We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.Oliver Wendell Holmes

How might we approach developing interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary games?

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