Elisabeth Hayes

Biography

Elisabeth R. Hayes is Professor of English at Arizona State University. She has published widely on the topics of literacy, learning, gender, and new digital media. Her recent publications include Women as Gamers: The Sims and 21st Century Learning (2010) and Language in a Digital Age (2011), both with J. Gee, and an edited book in progress, New Literacies in Videogaming Affinity Spaces (co-edited with S. Duncan). Hayes’s research has been supported by the MacArthur Foundation and the National Science Foundation. Her most recent work includes an investigation of the social, technical and linguistic affordances of diverse online gaming communities.

Sessions

• A Failed Experiment? Teaching and Learning about Community in World of Warcraft
  Wednesday, June 15

  10:30–12:00

  Browsing Library
• Teaching and Learning with the “Gaming Generation”: Using Games in Undergraduate Education across Disciplines
  Wednesday, June 15

  3:30–4:30

  Capitol View
• The Gamer Generation Teaches School: Gaming and New Media Practices of Preservice Teachers
  Thursday, June 16

  2:00–3:00

  Browsing Library
• Discussant, Hall of Failure on Game & Assessment Design are Hard Too
  
  Thursday, June 16
  10:30–12:00
  Browsing Library
• Discussant, Presentation on Game Design as the Means
  
  Thursday, June 16
  3:30–4:30
  Inn Wisconsin