EDTECH at Boise State University

In this TEDx Talks video, Prof. Christopher See discusses what games and education have in common and how games can be used to increase student engagement.

This study from Pew Research Center offers a good look at just who in American culture plays digital games regularly. The statistics here might be surprising.

A thorough article about various aspects of games and information literacy in the digital age. Includes a list of references and an embedded TEDx talk from noted teacher-librarian and researcher Joyce Valenza.

A LibGuide from the James C. Kirkpatrick Library at the University of Central Missouri. Provides a ton of resources about various aspects of gaming in education, including the important of play, digital learning, game-based learning, gamification, and subject area examples.

Games with science content incorporated into it.

Great games that engage students in science

This article from eLearning Industry takes the reader through five advantages to using games in the classroom. The article also has links within it to take readers to other articles and apps.

This article is not based on educational games in particular, but is based on video games. There are benefits of playing video games and the author does a nice job summarizing these benefits.

A game where the students watch and learn songs, then complete a cloze test while the song is playing. The song pauses appropriately to allow for the student to fill in the missing words.

A blog focused on games used in language teaching.

Written by a secondary language arts teacher, this blog post contains a twitter chat on how secondary educators in ELA routinely integrate technology into their classrooms.

This article from EdSurge offers a look at how tech can help students improve skills that are integral to an ELA classroom.

A PDF document created jointly by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) and the Society of American Archivists (SAA) that outlines core ideas and learning objectives to develop literacy skills in using primary source documents as distinguished from secondary source documents.

This website is very popular with English Language Learner teachers. It has articles divided by level of difficulty and with comprehension questions. It also has many current and relevant articles

English as a Second Language lessons with recorded video to focus on different skills. This site is especially useful as supplementary material for classes.

This article offers 10 ideas to integrate social studies with ELA and reading. Small, simple ideas from lesson plan tweaks to adding books to libraries to integrate social studies into ELA.

This author has great ideas to integrate history and social studies into ELA to ensure students receive social studies lessons. Sometimes, in primary school, in particular, students do not receive social studies and science lessons. With this bloggers ideas, you can integrate social studies into ELA.

This article provides a glimpse at one instructor's methods of integrating technology into social studies classrooms through modeling and includes student responses to these methods.