The future: Urban Science

Abstract

So far we’ve looked at five epistemic games, each of which shows the importance of one of the elements of an epistemic frame. With these illustrations I’ve argued that epistemic frames are a new way of thinking about thinking, and epistemic games like Digital Zoo, Escher’s World, The Pandora Project, and science.net offer a new way of thinking about learning—one that is critical to education in the high-tech, digital world of global competition. Computers are making the capacity for innovative thinking more essential than ever before. And the ability of computers to make epistemic games widely available provides an opportunity to think about our system of education in new ways to meet that challenge.