Research Interview Series #12 - Interview with Lucas Gillispie, Director of Digital Learning and Media
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Ray Pastore #12 - Interview with Lucas Gillispie, Director of Digital Learning and Media, Surry County Schools
Lucas Gillispie is an instructional technologist and public educator working in North Carolina. An avid gamer, he is passionate about the integration of video games into the learning environment and using games as a model for instruction. He is the founder and co-creator of the WoWinSchool Project, a program designed to explore the educational potential of online games like World of Warcraft with middle schoolers and leads one of the largest school-based Minecraft implementations in the world. Though commonly leading iPad and Chromebook workshops with teachers in his district, occasionally, you’ll find him engaged in a heated survival games match with his middle schoolers on the district Minecraft server or giving high schoolers roller coaster rides with an Oculus Rift. He shares gaming resources with educators and even makes an occasional blog post at: http://www.edurealms.com.
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