Press
Have a look at the latest videos and articles featuring the Institute and its projects below. If you’re a journalist and would like to request information or an interview, please use the contact form on this site.
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Digital Media: New Learners of the 21st Century
February 25, 2011 • PBS -
ChicagoQuest middle school teaches through games
November 26, 2011 • Examiner -
'Quest to Learn' - Gameifiziertes Lernen
November 24, 2011 • Das Erste | Morgenmagazin -
CICS ChicagoQuest Students Learn About Agriculture at Chicago Lights Urban Farm
November 16, 2011 • NBC ChicagoView more videos at: http://nbcchicago.com.
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Stories We Tell: Katie Salen | Institute of Play
November 10, 2011 • Yoxi TelevisionVideo -
High School Teachers Make Gaming Academic
November 1, 2011 • US News Education -
The Quest to Learn How Kids Learn Best
September 13, 2011 • Chicago Humanities Festival -
Why a School Designed by Game Designers Works for Kids
August 2, 2011 • NBC News: Education Nation -
Integrating Technology with Student-Centered Learning
July 1, 2011 • The Nellie Mae Education Foundation -
Katie Salen at Game Changers: New Ways to Teach Our Kids
June 28, 2011 • Aspen Ideas FestivalVideo -
Remixing Education
June 28, 2011 • Reuters -
Screen School - Hi Tech Learning
June 3, 2011 • Euronews -
Clive Thompson on How Games Make Work Seem Like Play
May 23, 2011 • Wired -
Bill Gates Takes on Education's Biggest Bureaucratic Beast with Video Games
May 3, 2011 • Fast Company -
School is Fun When You 'Quest to Learn'
April 7, 2011 • The Gamification Blog -
Game Theory: A City School Explores the Educational Power of Playing - and Designing - Games
April 6, 2011 • The Village Voice News -
Digital World Re-shapes Learning
April 5, 2011 • WBEZ 91.5 | Chicago Public Media -
Meet the Video Game School of the Future
March 31, 2011 • GOOD Education -
Taking School to the Next Level
March 30, 2011 • Chicago Tribune -
Quest to Learn: A School for Gamers
March 29, 2011 • Education Week -
School is all Play
March 29, 2011 • The New York Post -
Sparking Youth Interest with Science and Technology
January 4, 2011 • PopTechVideo -
Back to School: Year 2 of teaching with videogames begins
October 14, 2010 • Popular Science -
Learning by Playing: Video Games in the Classroom
September 15, 2010 • New York Times Magazine -
School Uses Video Games to Teach Thinking Skills
June 28, 2010 • National Public Radio -
A is for Failure-Helping Kids to Fail Faster Can Help Them Learn
June 14, 2010 • MacArthur Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning -
Katie Salen on Game Design and Learning
June 14, 2010 • MacArthur Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning -
The Best Way to Get to a Good Idea? Fail.
June 14, 2010 • MacArthur Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning -
Moments of Genius: Teaching with Games
May 20, 2010 • Big Think -
Game Theory: A City School Explores the Educational Power of Playing-and Designing-Games
April 6, 2010 • The Village Voice -
SMALLab Brings Motion-Capture Gaming to the Classroom
January 20, 2010 • Switched -
Using Technology to Teach
December 23, 2009 • Examiner -
Can Video Games Teach Kids?
December 20, 2009 • Parade -
Play School
December 18, 2009 • TES Connect -
A New School Teaches Students Through Videogames
December 10, 2009 • Popular Science -
Being Me
December 1, 2009 • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation -
Educational Video Games Mix Cool with Purpose
November 2, 2009 • The New York Times -
Learning Links
September 21, 2009 • MacArthur: Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning -
Learning, a New Game
September 16, 2009 • Metropolis -
Games Lessons
September 3, 2009 • The Economist -
Kids, Games and Learning
June 16, 2009 • Common Sense Media -
High-Tech Simulations Linked to Learning
April 6, 2009 • Education Week -
Digital Media, Games and Learning
April 3, 2009 • The Carnegie Commons -
Q2L: A Game-Design Inspired School in NYC
March 26, 2009 • EdLab at Teachers College, Columbia University -
Students, put down those pencils and pick up joysticks
March 25, 2009 • The NY Daily News -
Quest to Learn Review
March 24, 2009 • Insideschools.org -
Quest to Learn創舉 全面電玩教學
March 17, 2009 • World Journal -
A New Public School for Digital Kids
March 16, 2009 • Minnesota Public Radio -
The Quest School: Gaming for Grades
February 19, 2009 • The Guardian -
School that uses game-based learning opens in NYC
February 17, 2009 • Boing Boing -
Quest to Learn Opens: Leveraging Games-based Learning for Public Education
February 17, 2009 • Games for Change -
NYC game-design inspired school Quest 2 Learn opening fall 2009
February 16, 2009 • Offworld.com -
GAME School Opens in New York: Quest to Learn
February 16, 2009 • HASTAC -
Games for Learning: Perlin, Salen on the Future of Educational Games
November 5, 2008 • Serious Games Source -
Video Games Start to Shape Classroom Curriculum
September 18, 2008 • The Christian Science Monitor -
SMALLab Gains Big Boost
August 5, 2008 • EVLiving.com -
Helping Teachers Out
July 30, 2008 • Wikinomics -
David Birchfield: Gaming SMALLab
July 23, 2008 • MacArthur Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning -
Robison New Agendas for Media Literacy
June 9, 2008 • MIT & The Game School -
American (Game Developer) Idol
January 28, 2008 • The Sandbox (IEEE Spectrum Blog -
Projects Probe New Media's Rol in Changing the Face of Learning
December 5, 2007 • Education Week -
A Win-Win Scenario: 'Game School' Aims to Engage and Educate
August 6, 2007 • Wired -
New NYC School to Promote 'Gaming Literacy'
June 22, 2007 • Gamasutra -
MacArthur Foundation Contributes to Gaming Literacy
June 22, 2007 • Kotaku -
Proposed Video-Game School Gets $1.1 Million Boost
June 21, 2007 • National Public Radio -
New 6th-12th Grade School will use Games and Game Design as Pathways to Creativity and Learning
June 21, 2007 • MacArthur Foundation Press Release
