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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:120%;color:windowtext">The Games Institute is hosting a panelist event titled:
<i>Playful Thinking: A Conversation on Games, Learning, & Literacy</i>. All of the details regarding the event can be found below.
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<p class="MsoSubtitle" style="margin-top:0in"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:36.0pt;line-height:90%">Oct. 31 12pm-1pm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoTitle" style="line-height:80%"><span lang="EN-CA">Playful thinking<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h1 style="margin-top:12.0pt;mso-add-space:auto"><span lang="EN-CA">A Conversation on Games, Learning, & Literacy<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">Join this panel of experts as they discuss the social, political, cultural, and pedagogical role of games and play in the 21<sup>st</sup> century. Topics include studying, creating, and critiquing games and the importance
of play in developing critical thinking and digital literacy skills.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:#333F50;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#333F50;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><span style="color:windowtext">Join us in person at The Games Institute (EC1) or watch the livestream at Oct. 31<sup>st</sup>
12pm-1pm @ </span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:#17375E;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#17375E;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><a href="immerse.network/medialiteracy2016"><span style="color:#044A91;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#044A91;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><span style="color:windowtext">immerse.network/medialiteracy2016</span></span></a></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:#333F50;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#333F50;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:120%">Panelists<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-CA">Alexandra Orlando<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:120%">Alexandra Orlando is a PhD candidate writing about eSports and gender. She is also the editor-in-chief of First Person Scholar, a web-based publication that seeks to foster and
promote the study, criticism, and literacy surrounding games and culture.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-CA">Dr. Neil Randall<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:120%">Neil Randall is the Director of The Games Institute, a multi-disciplinary research centre at the University of Waterloo. An Associate Professor in the Department of English, Dr.
Randall works in fields such as the design of historical simulation games, the study of game adaptations of artistic works, and the study and implementation of purposeful games.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-CA">Dr. Steve Wilcox<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:120%">Steve Wilcox is an instructor in the Game Design & Development program at Wilfred Laurier University. He has developed numerous serious and purposeful games in the areas of health,
wellness, professional training, and cross-cultural communication.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-CA">Moderated by Dr. Jen Whitson<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:120%">Dr. Jen Whitson is a sociologist who researches the secret life of software, the people who make it, and how both change our daily lives. Her current projects centre on digital
media incubators, indie game makers and how they sustain their creative work, and on the surveillance implications of data-driven design.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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