Example of the gaming that Jane M. might approve of... thought you would find this interesting. The gaming community apparently is published in Nature.
short article without much content but makes the point that we need to pay more attention to cognitive functions and learning how to work with our brains.
this is a sort blog about a finding that students will spend more time teaching an agent that will then compete with other student's agent then learning for themselves. It is a way to use technology to make every student a teacher (which is my quick fix for schools--find ways to make everyone a teacher).