My name is Jason A. Engerman and I am the president of the GSA within AECT. One of our missions this year is to connect with other educational graduate students to share information, opportunities and support. To this end we would like to invite you to attend or pass along our latest webinar entitiled "Improving Adhesion with Culture and Gaming". This webinar feature a prominent leader in the field of instructional design Ali Carr-Chellman as she unpacks her research on Boys, Gaming and the Common Core standards. We will also feature the President of the E-Sports club at Penn State University. He will discuss how E-Sports Club prepares its participants for the 21st Century workplace. A formal invition is included below as well as an attachment for a fuller description. Improve Adhesion with Culture and Gaming Webinar There are many conceptions about the impact of games on our youth, but there is skepticism on their ability to provide significant learning value. Can games provide respectable learning benefits for users or are they purely a waste of time? How can games align with national standards or prepare players for the 21st Century workplace? On behalf of AECT, the Graduate Student Assembly and Culture, Learning and Technology divisions, would like to invite you to the first of our free webinar series entitled "Accelerate Learning". The first of these free insightful webinars will focus on the impact of Culture and Gaming and will be held on March 24th. You may register here (link) As AECT is the premier international community for effective teaching and learning, this webinar will speak to an audience of researchers, educators, parents and gamers alike towards improving preparation for a new generation of 21st Century learners. Expert Presenters: Ali Carr-Chellman, department head of Learning and Performance Systems at Penn State University, will uncover the impact that video games have had on young boy adolescents within their personal cultures and academic development including alignment to national standards. Josh Miller-Day, President of the E-Sports Club also at Penn State University, will inform us of the growing worldwide phenomena that is competitive video gaming. He will also speak to the potential for E-Sports clubs to represent a 21stCentury training grounds for a new generation of learners. In addition to more Accelerate Learning webinars this year, AECT also provides an exceptional annual conference that services a multitude of learners and designers of learning. This year's conference will be held in Indianapolis, Indiana on November 3-7, 2015 with a committed theme of *Accelerate Learning: Racing Into The Future.* More information on "Improve Adhesion with Culture and Gaming" webinar is provided in the attachment*.* Please join us on March 24th @ 12pm EST. To participate in this insightful session or to receive information on where to view this webinar at a later date, use the Web Registration Form: (*bit.ly/cultureandgaming <http://bit.ly/cultureandgaming>*) Further information on organization and contact information can be found below. AECT Website: http://aect.site-ym.com/ Conference Registration: http://www.aect.org/events/registration/ Contact Information: *aect.gsa.leadership@gmail.com <aect.gsa.leadership@gmail.com>* *www.aect.org <http://www.aect.org/>* Forwarded from: -- Ally Krupar PhD Candidate, Adult Education and Comparative International Education Pennsylvania State University e: AllyKrupar@psu.edu w: http://allykrupar.com/ m: +1 330 217 5130 skype: ally_krupar