Embracing change and seeing information as a resource can help us stop thinking of learning as an isolated process of information absorption and start thinking of it as a cultural and social process of engaging with the constantly changing world around us.

The new culture of learning actually comprises two elements. The first is a massive information network that provides almost unlimited access and resources to learn about anything. The second is a bounded and structured environment that allows for unlimited agency to build and experiment with things within those boundaries.

The challenge is to find a way to marry structure and freedom to create something altogether new.

Students learn best when they are able to follow their passion and operate within the constraints of a bounded environment.

During the time they spend together, family members are not just idly chatting; they are actively engaged with one another—questing, learning, and building teams to complete real tasks. They feel that the connections they build in the context of gaming can be about something concrete: accomplishments and shared experiences that bring them together

collective, a community of similarly minded people who helped Sam learn and meet the very particular set of needs that he had.

riddle. Games researcher Espen Aarseth describes the dynamic as one of aporia and epiphany. In both cases, whatever information one has is insufficient to reach a conclusion about meaning or knowledge. Play provides the opportunity to leap, experiment, fail, and continue to play with different outcomes—in other words to riddle one’s way through a m

a world of near-constant flux, play becomes a strategy for embracing change, rather than a way for growing out of it.

Indwelling is a familiarity with ideas, practices, and processes that are so engrained they become second nature. Not unlike the notion of inquiry, indwelling is also an adaptive process, meaning that the practices that become second nature have flexibility; they are responsive to changes in the environment and situation. They become an embodied se