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"Later this month, the U.S. Department of Education holds its first Games for Learning Summit in New York City, a gathering of educational experts, students, teachers, game publishers and developers. Summit organizers hope to use the event to help break down the barriers that exist between the interests of game developers and needs of educational games. The outcome, organizers hope, will be new ways to make and distribute engaging and educational video games to classrooms."

"Digital games have the potential to transform K-12 education as we know it. But what has been the real experience among teachers who use games in the classroom?  In 2013, the Games and Learning Publishing Council conducted a national survey among nearly 700 K-8 teachers."

Reviews of games for learning, plus other articles

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"edWeb, Games4Ed launch game-based learning initiative"

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Tool for students to create their own games, can be used to create games to reinforce learning in math, science, and social studies.

from a flier: Wings is a research based program for children aged 3-6 that focuses on school readiness and pre-literacy skills such as numbers, letters, language/ congnitive development, comprehension, memory, problem solving, decision making, and creative thinking WINGS is a preschool literacy program for ages three to six that focuses on learning through play. The WINGS program uses developmentally-appropriate materials to boost a child's skills in areas such as memory, decision-making, cognition, and language. Each game has a specific developmental age, which allows children to work on skills that are appropriate to their current ability level. The board and computer games hosted by Hoagie in the series are colorful and attractive to the child. The games enrich memory, problem solving skills, comprehension, creative thinking and decision-making. Children in the WINGS program work one-on-one with a trained facilitator up to two times a week. Each child plays up to 26 times on either a board or computer game each year. On average, children enrolled in WINGS are able to increase their cognitive and language skills by 2 months for each month they are in the program. How can your child participate? WINGS at the Library:Call 441-0614 to schedule a WINGS placement evaluation or just check the materials out and play one activity a week for 26 weeks.

VocabularySpellingCity is a fun way to learn spelling and vocabulary words by playing engaging learning games using any word list. The most popular activities are Spelling TestMe, HangMouse, and our vocabulary games, available to Premium Members. The most popular word lists are Sound Alikes, Compound Words, Hunger Games and SAT Words. This is a free app!

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Shows investments in Learning Technology and specifically game based learning

"Recent research from NYU highlights that games can increase student interest in even difficult subjects and making those games ones where students compete can boost their performance."

"Our school sent home the usual memo saying "keep screen time to a minimum" and "read with your kids." I get that reading is important, but our two kids, ages 10 and 11, love video games. There must be some educational value, no?"

Article on how games engage, teach, and asses and the Games Summit in NYC

Basic and Advanced Chess Tactics to improve your chess game. At ZugZwang Academy, you will learn to recognize the most common tactics employed in chess games.

Says serious games will grow to $5.4B by 2020m 16+% annual growth

Looks like a lot of fun-what a great way for students to learn!

fabulous website for kids to learn in a fun way.

Animal and nature games

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Great series of questions on game based learning

Discussion on Game-based Learning with Mitch Weisburgh and Marianne Malmstrom