<div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-8540426c-7fff-d5ef-ff27-d52edb91219f"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Raising Good Gamers: Envisioning an Agenda for Diversity, Inclusion, and Fair Play</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">By Katie Salen</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">New report explores the online toxicity–online aggression, hate, harassment, prejudice, and disruptive player behavior–that many online gamers experience, and what can be done to make online gaming communities more youth-friendly and inclusive.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Link to report: </span><a href="https://connectedlearning.news/RGGLtech" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://connectedlearning.news/RGGLtech</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">About the report</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In February 2020, leading researchers, game developers, educators, policymakers, youth experts, and others convened in a workshop for an in-depth exploration of the forces shaping the culture and climate of online game communities and the impact of antisocial and toxic interactions on players ages 8-13. The goal: develop a shared agenda to guide future research and collaboration to make online gaming communities more youth-friendly and inclusive.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Raising Good Gamers report synthesizes outputs, learnings, and recommendations from the February 2020 workshop. After framing the nature of the challenge, the report then shares a model of the problem space, describes areas of opportunity, and concludes with an overview of current efforts underway within the initiative.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">About the Raising Good Gamers (RGG) Initiative</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Raising Good Gamers initiative was created to catalyze positive change in the culture and climate of online gaming for youth. The program aims for a future full of positive, inclusive, fair online game communities. This work is taking place hand-in-hand with game developers, advocacy groups, philanthropists, educators, parents, youth, researchers, and others.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">"One unifying goal of RGG is to make sure that all youth—regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, or experience level—can be a gamer if they want to be." - Katie Salen</span></p><br><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Learn more about the Raising Good Gamers initiative and read the new report here: </span><a href="https://connectedlearning.news/RGGLtech" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://connectedlearning.news/RGGLtech</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></span><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(39,39,40);font-family:-apple-system,sans-serif;font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(39,39,40);font-family:-apple-system,sans-serif;font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(39,39,40);font-family:-apple-system,sans-serif;font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(39,39,40);font-family:-apple-system,sans-serif;font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(39,39,40);font-family:-apple-system,sans-serif;font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Respectfully,</span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(39,39,40);font-family:-apple-system,sans-serif;font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap"><strong style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Jamieson Pond, Head of Communications</strong></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(39,39,40);font-family:-apple-system,sans-serif;font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Connected Learning Lab</span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(39,39,40);font-family:-apple-system,sans-serif;font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">University of California, Irvine</span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(39,39,40);font-family:-apple-system,sans-serif;font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="https://clalliance.org/" target="_blank">CLAlliance.org</a> | <a href="http://connectedlearning.uci.edu/" target="_blank">ConnectedLearning.uci.edu</a> | <a href="https://connectedlearningsummit.org" target="_blank">ConnectedLearningSummit.org</a></span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(39,39,40);font-family:-apple-system,sans-serif;font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/TheCLAlliance" target="_blank">@TheCLAlliance</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/TheCLSummit" target="_blank">@TheCLSummit</a></span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(39,39,40);font-family:-apple-system,sans-serif;font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/connected-learning-alliance/" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a> | <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ConnectedLearningAlliance/" target="_blank">Facebook</a> | <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/connectedlearningalliance" target="_blank">YouTube</a></span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(39,39,40);font-family:-apple-system,sans-serif;font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="https://clalliance.org/newsletter" target="_blank">Connected Learning Newsletter</a></span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(39,39,40);font-family:-apple-system,sans-serif;font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(39,39,40);font-family:-apple-system,sans-serif;font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">"Everyone you ever meet knows something you don't." - Bill Nye</span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(39,39,40);font-family:-apple-system,sans-serif;font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(39,39,40);font-family:-apple-system,sans-serif;font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>