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Facebook games are taking off like mad this year. Anyone using 'em on campus?

Interesting - I'm not sure if this applies better to design or after-action narration.

Uses real historic artifacts but creates fictional dystopian future.

Kumawar is still going on? This is perfect for them.

Very nice, easy way to mix up a preexisting board game for classroom purposes.

Terrific idea.

Now that looks like fun.

Brecht Vandenbroucke Minecraft is the hot new videogame among teachers and parents. It's considered genuinely educational: Like an infinite set of programmable Lego blocks, it's a way to instill spatial reasoning, math, and logic-the skills beloved by science and technology educators. But from what I've seen, it also teaches something else: good old-fashioned reading and...

"A free online game about rural poverty in developing nations."

Reacting to the Past game book.

Short newsgame simulating choices confronting Syrian refugess. "The Syrian conflict has torn the country apart, leaving thousands dead and driving millions to flee their homes. Many seek refuge in neighbouring countries but others pay traffickers to take them to Europe - risking death, capture and deportation. If you were fleeing Syria for Europe, what choices would you make for you and your family?"

Did those papers freak out because of the very idea of a newsgame, or that it simulates a current conflict?

I like this as the most basic gamification exercise I've seen!