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Lisa Dawley's (Boise State University) blog on games, virtual worlds, instructional design, gamification, and learning.

The Learning Games Network is a non-profit spin-off of the MIT Education Arcade dedicated to the innovative design, research, and use of learning games.

Brock Dubbels' blog featuring research and news related to the use of video games for learning.

The Games, Learning, and Society group is a collection of academic researchers, interactive media (or game) developers, and government and industry leaders who investigate how this medium operates, how it can be used to transform how we learn, and what this means for society. As such we seek to understand what cognitive work goes into playing Zelda, World of Warcraft, or Civilization, how these design features might be leveraged to improve learning via the design of learning systems, and how organizations such as schools will need to respond.

Welcome to The Educational Games Database (TEGD), a website catering to educators who want to learn more about the educational potential of video games. TEGD is a resource for educators at all grade levels, and with all types of backgrounds related to technology and video games.

Educational Games Research Blog discusses topics related to academic research and media commentary concerning the use of video games in K-20 settings.

Dean Groom, Australian Educator and Gamer's Blog on Gaming, PBL, etc.

Blog with interviews, research, and more related to critical game design and development.

The popularity of video games is not the enemy of education, but rather a model for best teaching strategies. Games insert players at their achievable challenge level and reward player effort and practice with acknowledgement of incremental goal progress, not just final product.

I wonder if we could have a stamp made? In the long run, it would be a lot cheaper.

Good summary of gaming in education to share with the uninitiated.

This isn't anything revolutionary, but it does come back to the core of gaming in education and good pedagogy in lesson planning, which is knowing your audience and planning around their needs and desires. "We launched two titles in October -- "Rockett's New School" -- the first of a series of products -- is about a character called Rockett beginning her first day of school in eighth grade at a brand new place, with a blank slate, which allows girls to play with the question of, "What will I be like when I'm older?" "What's it going to be like to be in high school or junior high school? Who are my friends?"; to exercise the love of social complexity and the narrative intelligence that drives most of their play behavior; and which embeds in it values about noticing that we have lots of choices in our lives and the ways that we conduct ourselves."

They don't have the depth, the rich narrative that really engaging video games have, that the boys are really interested in.

This website looks like it is not messing around!  It has competitions, resources, papers, a community feature and more.  I'm looking forward to exploring it.

Someone shared this on the tumblr, so I thought I'dd add it here.