Raising Good Gamers: Envisioning an Agenda for Diversity, Inclusion, and Fair Play By Katie Salen 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. Link to report: https://connectedlearning.news/RGGAIR About the report 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. 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. About the Raising Good Gamers (RGG) Initiative 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. "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 Learn more about the Raising Good Gamers initiative and read the new report here: https://connectedlearning.news/RGGAIR Respectfully, *Jamieson Pond, Head of Communications* Connected Learning Lab University of California, Irvine CLAlliance.org <https://clalliance.org/> | ConnectedLearning.uci.edu <http://connectedlearning.uci.edu/> | ConnectedLearningSummit.org <https://connectedlearningsummit.org> Twitter: @TheCLAlliance <https://twitter.com/TheCLAlliance> | @TheCLSummit <https://twitter.com/TheCLSummit> LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/company/connected-learning-alliance/> | Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/ConnectedLearningAlliance/> | YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/c/connectedlearningalliance> Connected Learning Newsletter <https://clalliance.org/newsletter> "Everyone you ever meet knows something you don't." - Bill Nye