{"id":31231,"date":"2011-04-01T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/policy-brief-game-changer-investing-in-digital\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T10:25:15","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T17:25:15","slug":"policy-brief-game-changer-investing-in-digital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/policy-brief-game-changer-investing-in-digital\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-31231 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/policy-brief-game-changer-investing-in-digital\/attachment\/31232\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_lif0cgbqEP1qescwho1_250-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_lif0cgbqEP1qescwho1_250-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_lif0cgbqEP1qescwho1_250.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Policy Brief: Game Changer: Investing in Digital Play to Advance Children&rsquo;s Learning and Health by Ann My Thai et al. | June 2009 | View Bio DOWNLOAD: Executive Summary | Report Children as young as 4 are immersed in a new gaming culture, but many parents, educators, and health professionals, concerned over violence, sexual content, and reports of addiction, do not consider games to be a positive force in children&rsquo;s lives. Game Changer addresses this critique, offering a new framework to use games to help children learn healthy behaviors, traditional skills such as reading and math, and 21st-century skills such as critical thinking, global learning, and programming design. It specifies how increased national investment in research-based digital games might play a cost-effective and transformative role and provides comprehensive action steps for media industry, government, philanthropy, and academia to harness the appeal of digital games to improve children&rsquo;s health and learning. The report was co-authored by Ann My Thai, David Lowenstein, and Dixie Ching, as well as David Rejeski of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; support was provided by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation&rsquo;s Pioneer Portfolio. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/joanganzcooneycenter.org\/Reports-18.html\">Policy Brief: Game Changer: Investing in Digital Play to Advance Children&rsquo;s Learning and Health<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Policy Brief: Game Changer: Investing in Digital Play to Advance Children&rsquo;s Learning and Health by Ann My Thai et al. | June 2009 | View Bio DOWNLOAD: Executive Summary | Report Children as young as 4 are immersed in a new gaming culture, but many parents, educators, and health professionals, concerned over violence, sexual content, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[1538],"class_list":["post-31231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","tag-humane-games","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-87J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31233,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31231\/revisions\/31233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}