Quotes from Katie Salen

I think one of the changes of our consciousness of how things come into being, of how things are made and how they work . . . is the change from an engineering paradigm, which is to say a design paradigm, to a biological paradigm, which is a cultural and evolutionary one. In lots and lots of areas now, people say, How do you create the conditions at the bottom to allow the growth of the things you want to happen?—Brian Eno

Our school design process attempts to harness strategic thinking around gaming and game design as an innovative curricular and learning

In this sense, a game's goal is the death of play, the mark of the end, foretelling the moment the magic circle will disappear.

Using Game Design and Systems Thinking Everything I do in school connects to my life outside of school through a game design and systems perspective.

No game is an island.

What lies at the border of the game?

Salen, K. 2007b. "Gaming Literacies: A Game Design Study in Action." Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia 16, no. 3:301-322. Salvia, J., and J.

Play is the way that human beings learn about the world. That's how we discover how things work.