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Quest to Learn - Chicago Humanities Festival

Quest to Learn

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  • ABOUT Katie Salen

    Katie Salen is professor in the College of Computing and Digital Media at DePaul University, and former director of the Center for Transformative Media at Parsons The New School for Design, a research center in New York focused on emerging trends in design and media. Her work is in the field of game design and serves as the executive director of a the Institute of Play, which focuses on games and learning. Katie led the team that founded Quest to Learn. She currently serves as the school’s executive director of design.

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Katie Salen is a game designer. She is also a professor in the School of Computing and Digital Media at DePaul University and the executive director of the Institute of Play. In 2009 she helped launch Quest to Learn (Q2L), a New York City public school that uses the underlying principles of games to create highly immersive, gamelike learning experiences. Salen and her colleagues have developed an innovative curriculum embraced by scholars, teachers, parents, and students as “education for the 21st century.” In this program, Salen discusses Q2L’s development and success; the planned fall 2011 opening of ChicagoQuest, the near-north charter school that will follow the Q2L model; and the opportunities and challenges of implementing the model.

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This program is generously underwritten by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

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