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Institute of Play Design Pack: Games and Learning

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"What if teachers could harness their creativity and knowledge to engage students in new and exciting ways?  What if teachers supported each other in becoming designers of their own games for learning...
Educational Game Trailer

Sortify Educational Game Trailer

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Want to see the Sortify game in action? Check out this educational game trailer which explains how to play the game, as well as teaching and assessment tips for Sortify. You'll also see how students c...

Free Games-Based Learning Professional Development Event at FETC Conference

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BrainPOP is thrilled to partner with FETC and Learning Games Network to offer a free day of professional development to educators from across the country to innovate through the use of games in educ...

Game-Based Learning Design Workshop

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"The single best opportunity for innovation in education is to gather teachers together in professional development programs that are pedagogy-centered, so that they can hone their teaching techniqu...
Good Learning Games

Good Video Games, Good Learning Games

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Written by James Paul Gee (2007), this article explores 16 learning principles that are incorporated in good learning games. The author argues educators could make use of these principles to make lear...

Teaching with Games GLPC Case Study: Ginger

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The Joan Ganz Cooney Center released new research about teaching with games from their Games and Learning Publishing Council initiative.  They conducted a series of video case studies and a national s...
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BrainPOP Partners Awarded Top Honors at Games For Change

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Congratulations to both Learning Games Network (LGN) and Filament Games, winners in this year's Game For Change Awards.  The Games for Change organization has a noble mission to "catalyze social impac...

Teaching with Games: GLPC Case Study: Steve

Posted by SM Bruner on

The Joan Ganz Cooney Center released new research from the Games and Learning Publishing Council initiative.  They conducted a series of video case studies and a national survey, Teacher Attitudes abo...