In his groundbreaking Convergence Culture, Henry Jenkins (2006) notes the return to folk culture afforded by the internet, as cultural consumers turn to machinima, fan fiction, self produced videos, and other forms of cultural production. A phenomenon long part of fan communities has gone massively mainstream in recent years. A many-to-many cultural production and consumption is now running along with the one-to-many broadcast model. In Jewish educational leadership, this means that we must concentrate on project based, “artifact” producing, collaborative, self-directed, creative, design oriented, problem solving-oriented education. “Artifacts” are what learners produce – whether writing, video, models, this article, etc.

At ConverJent (www.converJent.org) I concentrate on Games for Jewish Learning, as Game design for learning fosters all of these 21st Century learning skills. We teach and learn Torah through Game-based models, primarily Game Design for Learning – learners are empowered as designers as they prototype a variety of Games. In so doing, they learn the material enough to teach and engage others. Leadership in this model means facilitating and guiding self-directed learners in project based, problem-solving-based learning. ConverJent is incubated in NYC at Clal and ignited by a PresenTense NYC Fellowship.

Rabbi Owen Gottlieb is a PhD Candidate in Education and Jewish Studies at NYU, specializing in Digital Media and Games for Learning. He is the founder and director of ConverJent, Seriously Fun Games for Jewish Learning. (see Owen’s article on Jewish Digital Communities and Media in the current issue of the CCAR Journal via ConverJent.org and www.BJPA.org)

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