gaming Archive

Dr. James Paul Gee, Prof. @ Arizona State

This excellent video came across our radar by James Paul Gee, Professor at Arizona State University. We concur with his arguments here. The clip is entitled "hands on learning with video games," but it discusses a lot more that needs to happen in education besides video games. It's hard to...
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Gaming and Informal learning report – from “Engineering Play…”

Mimi Ito, a MacArthur colleague, writes about the sociocultural contexts of game based learning. We're excited to check out her book, Engineering Play: A Cultural History of Children's Software (John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning). There are some great snippets that we'll excerpt...
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