Kurt Squire

Kurt Squire - Featured Speaker @ KOTESOL 2022

Featured Session

Learning Language Through Games

Much attention has been made about how games can improve education and learning. With all of the attention on 3D games, we often miss opportunities to use lower impact technologies. Language in particular can be facilitated by role-playing games. This session compares the design of several games – some on mobile devices, some on computers, and some face-to-face – to suggest new models of learning through games. Participants will gain a better understanding of the key issues in designing learning experiences with games, including specific design features and techniques they can use.

Time: Sunday (May 1) 12:00 noon, KST (50 min., Synchronous)

  Biosketch

Kurt Squire is a professor of informatics and co-director of the Games + Learning + Society Center at UC, Irvine. Dr. Squire’s research interests are in theories and approaches to game-based learning (Video Games and Learning, Teachers College Press), and the design of games for impact (Making Games for Impact, MIT Press). Dr. Squire has authored over 100 scholarly works on learning technologies, and has directed 17 educational software projects, including At Play at the Cosmos, published by Norton, which is used in college astronomy courses around the world. Dr. Squire is a former elementary and Montessori teacher, as well as games journalist. Dr. Squire currently teaches courses in UCI’s Game Design and Interactive Media Program and is working on technologies for wellness.

Select Sites
UCI, Department of Informatics: Kurt Squire
Academia.edu: Kurt Squire
K. Squire (2022) contribution to Korea TESOL Journal, 17(2)
Kurt Squire contribution to The English Connection (Spring, 2022) 

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