The Minecraft generation
The Minecraft generation
- April 14, 2016
- Mimi Ito, anthropology prof, on gamers and learning in The New York Times Magazine and MSN, April 14, 2016
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Mimi Ito, a cultural anthropologist at the University of California, Irvine, and a founder of Connected Camps, an online program where kids play Minecraft together, has closely studied gamers and learning. … “It’s one of the places where young people are engaging with more expert people who are much older than them,” Ito says. These connections are transformative: Kids get a glimpse of a professional path that their schoolwork never illuminates.
For the full story, please visit http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/17/magazine/the-minecraft-generation.html?src=twr&_r=0.
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