Beginning my career in Digital Media Theory I spent significant time looking at the ideological and cultural aspects of game development and critique. I have spent the last 9 years working as a Professor of communication and technological ethics and as an Educational Technologist managing Learning and Video Management services and directing online education programs, with the hope of inspiring deeper community and critical engagement within virtual spaces. My work with Gear Learning spawns from an insatiable hope to see education and games flourish together. My conviction is that as these two transformative mediums converge, students will learn to be the crafters of our reality's levels, the world builders, the fantasy makers, and develop dreams that change the socio-cultural screens that say “Game Over” to those that read “Game On