Game Based Learning

G.A.M.E. is a network of educators interested in games in learning. The YouTube channel is home for their live broadcasts and videos.

ARG Academy: A course for educators to learn about and build ARGs

From Digital Game-Based Learning (McGraw-Hill, 2001)

A collection of videos covering a variety of areas within the realm of game based learning.

One of the many tremendous resources offered by Jerry Blumgarten including sites to articles on games in learning, sites including learning games, etc.

This blog post speaks to a variety of benefits and ways to introduce video games in the English Classroom. Several games are discusses as well as gamification principals.

Gaming in education is a really big deal, and a very fun way to get students more involved and interested in education. Board games, video games, even active outdoor games all have an important place in education, and these videos share more about their role in learning. Check out #49.

This wiki provides information and lesson ideas pertaining to the use of Minecraft in the learning environment.

20 blogs dedicated to game based learning.

Jane's research on ARG

Worth having this list of blogs at the ready if you are interested in Games in Learning!

I had forgotten about this TEDtalk; fits with Jane McGonigal's work

Gamers Advancing Meaningful Education (G.A.M.E) is an online community of educators who game.

"Think of it as an alternate world Cold War era spy adventure, if that kind of thing included stuff like blood sacrifices packed with dark beings."- Andrea Phillips, Balance of Powers Kickstarter campaign video. Before Adrian Hon and Naomi Alderman took to Kickstarter to fund the mobile app Zombies, Run, there was Balance of Powers.

An alternate reality game (ARG) is an interactive narrative that uses the real world as a platform and uses transmedia to deliver a story that may be altered by participants' ideas or actions. The form is defined by intense player involvement with a story that takes place in real-time and evolves according to participants' responses.

This open course is designed for educators who want to learn more games, simulations and game-like environments for education. It is designed for all levels of participation. We are using the matrix from Dr. Lisa Dawley's Social Network Knowledge Construction as the model for the course.

Daniel Floyd's video on Video Games and Learning featured in Mark Chen's HP Catalyst Academy's Crash Course in Gaming. The video provides a strong context for the value of tangential learning provided by games. It is presented in an 'in plain english' style.

An MIT Education Arcade paper on the value of using digital games, social networking, and simulations in the learning environment.

This study supports the idea that gaming improves multitasking skills.

This blog contains stuff approriate for my (Jim Gee's) academic identity. More personal stuff is at jamespaulgee.wordpress.com. Both blogs are largely for my musings and not to attract an audience.