Dr. Kat Schrier - We The Gamers

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Dr. Kat Schrier is an Associate Professor, Director of the Play Innovation Lab, and Director of the Games and Emerging Media program at Marist College. She is the author of We the Gamers: How Games Teach Ethics & Civics, published by Oxford University Press (2021), and Knowledge Games, published by Johns Hopkins University Press (2016). She has previously edited two book series, Ethics and Game Design and Learning, Education, & Games. She was a Belfer Fellow with the ADL's Center for Technology & Society, and she is co-PI for a Templeton Grant on designing VR games for empathy. Prior to joining the Marist College faculty, she worked as a media producer at Scholastic, Nickelodeon, BrainPOP, and ESI Design. She has a doctorate from Columbia University, a master’s from MIT, and a bachelor’s from Amherst College.

Connecting with Kat

• Kat's Website - https://www.karenschrier.com

Quotes From This Episode

• "Even Fornite, Among Us, Minecraft, are games where you're managing your resources, communicating with others, and you might be building stories...and these are games where people are really practicing civic discourse."
• "I think the big takeaway is that we are learning when we play games. We are learning through play. It doesn't matter if it's specifically an educational game, or it's a game that is like Minecraft or Fortnite."
• "I think that games are really helping us to practice ethics, ethical thinking, and ethical decision making."

Resources Mentioned in This Episode

• Quandary
• Fable III
• Fallout 3
• Pandemic (board game)
• Among Us
• Minecraft
• Fortnite
• Mission US
• International Game Developers Association

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