Kurt D. Squire (born July 10, 1972, in

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) is a

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at The

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, member of the Connected Learning Laboratory, and former director of the Games, Learning & Society Initiative at the

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, best known for his research into

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for education.

Biography

Squire was born as the elder of two children to Walter "Dean" Squire, an accountant, and Susan Elizabeth Nelson, a

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teacher. He attended Portage High School, graduating in 1990, then going on to study at the

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. Squire is married to Constance Steinkuehler, also a video game scholar and professor at the University of California, Irvine.

Education/teaching career

He received a B.Phil. in

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in 1994 from

, and earned a

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in education in 2004 from

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. He taught at the Knoxville Montessori School and the McGuffey Foundation School between 1994 and 1996; later he became research manager of the Games-to-Teach Project at

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. Squire is the recipient of an National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER grant, as well as grant support from the NSF, National Institutes of Healthy, Department of Education, the MacArthur Foundation, AMD and Gates Foundations, as well as companies such as Microsoft, DeVry, and the Data Recognition Corporation. A big music fan and harmonicaist, he has led many discussions on the drum sound on Jason Isbell's "Be Afraid" and his favorite Daniel Lanois album is ''Waves of Air''. Squire wrote a regular column for Computer Games magazine, and has been interviewed for many periodicals and media outlets, from

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References

External links

List of publications

GLS Conference website
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