Week 2

Readings this Week

True Names: p. 221 to end

Cult of the Dead Cow : Chapters 8 through 10

Communications:

We will be doing discussion in two different places in the discussion forum of ISTE Games and SIms Network forum and also on the EDUCAUSE Games and Learning constituency listserv (GAMESANDLEARNING@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU).

And to get us started on immersion

Herrera, F., Bailenson, J.N., Weisz, E., Ogle, E. & Zaki J. (2018) Building long-term empathy: A large-scale comparison of traditional and virtual reality perspective-taking. PLoS ONE 13(10): e0204494. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0204494 PDF at https://vhil.stanford.edu/pubs/2018/building-long-term-empathy-a-large-scale-comparison-of-traditional-and-virtual-reality-perspective-taking/

We finished up True Names this week and we'd like to have you think about what you read for Q1 and Q2.

Q1. VR has been called “the ultimate empathy machine.” Do your experiences with VR back that up? What do the authors of the article say? 

Q2. Describe a game or simulation you’ve participated in that elicited empathy from you. Or describe a game or simulation that you thought would elicit empathy but didn’t.

Viewing this Week

Ethics and Games: Life is Strange

https://youtu.be/nwTVdDzBhZshttps://youtu.be/nwTVdDzBhZs

Game List

Radical Empathy’s human trafficking immersive experience (https://www.reefcares.org/one-generation-education-system/). 

Optional Readings

Muncy, J. ( 6, 27 2018)  Stop Expecting Games to Build Empathy. Wired Retrieved from https://www.wired.com/story/games-and-empathy/

Academic Articles (for the truly motivated)

Mezirow, J. (1994). Understanding Transformation Theory. Adult Education Quarterly, 44(4), 222–232. https://doi.org/10.1177/074171369404400403

Academic Articles (for the truly motivated)

Contributed by Games & Learning constituency listserv discussion by Sam Anderson

Why Video Games Can't Teach You Empathy (2015) by Cecilia D'Anastasio

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mgbwpv/empathy-games-dont-exist

If you walk in someone else's shoes, then you've taken their shoes: empathy machines as appropriation machines (2017).

https://www.blog.radiator.debacle.us/2017/04/if-you-walk-in-someone-elses-shoes-then.html