CURRENT NEWS - January 2008
Game On @ The Library
FAQ
Today's students in grades K through College
represent the first generations to grow
up with new technologies such as computers,
video games, digital music players, and
cell phones. These students think, learn,
and process information differently from
their predecessors, and technology has
accelerated the speed at which this generation
adjusts to new situations, embraces new
roles and goals, and interacts with people
of diverse communities. Naturally, these
learning needs bode new forms of technological
information. As an institution that prides
itself on bringing the newest, hottest,
and most innovative information in any
format to New York City's communities,
The New York Public Library seeks to serve
this generation and future ones by initiating
Game On @ The Library in December 2007.
Game On @ The Library addresses several educational needs:
- Games make learning fun by lowering the emotional stakes of failing, and players take risks and learn through trial and error.
- Games construct compelling worlds for players to move through, feel a part of, and take stake in the events unfolding.
- Games have an infinite range of solutions, just like real life.
- In the game world, players make their own discoveries and apply what they learn to new contexts.
- When a player enters a game, they begin identifying core conditions and look for problems that must be addressed.
- Players can enroll as advanced players, and spend hundreds of hours with the game and mastering its basic rules.
- Games are a mode of active engagement. They encourage experimentation and risk-taking, and they view the process of solving a problem as important as finding the answer.
- Games span across language
barriers, and players do not necessarily
need to speak English to participate.
Game On @ The Library will include:
- Nintendo Wii and Playstation
3 game programming for children, teens,
and adults in 18 locations across the
Bronx, Manhattan, Staten Island. Games
will include Wii Play, Tony Hawk's Project
8, Guitar Hero 3, Dance Dance Revolution,
Mario Party 8, and Brunswick Pro-Bowling.
- Xbox 360 gaming programs for teens and adults in 5 locations across the Bronx, Manhattan, and Staten Island
- Non-reserveable, circulating games for children, teens and adults in 18 locations. Games circulate for one week; fines are $1.00/day.
Game On @ The Library:
Bronx:
Bronx Library Center
Grand Concourse Branch Library
Hunt's Point Branch Library
Mott Haven Branch Library
Parkchester Branch Library
Wakefield Branch Library
Manhattan:
Aguilar Branch Library
Chatham Square Branch Library
Countee Cullen Branch Library
Donnell Library Center: Central Childrens' Room and Teen Central
Jefferson Market Branch Library
Mulberry Street Branch Library
Seward Park Branch Library
Washington Heights Branch Library
Staten Island:
New Dorp Branch Library
Port Richmond Branch Library
St. George Library Center
West New Brighton Branch Library
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