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Wonderful window into the Quest to Learn school modeling how game-based learning engages students, feedback is ongoing and immediate, learning through play, engagement, supercharged about the learning, etc.

Power of game-based learning and design thinking by Katie Salen, Director of the Institute of Play

5 Games your middle schools students should be playing -- Games are powerful learning tools!

A rich example of how badge learning can be implemented to support authentic, project-based, student-interest driven learning. This is a program at UC Davis. What pieces of their program could be applicable to a grades 6-12 setting, where badges offer feedback, learning milestones, and open up spaces of possibilities for learning?

Katie Salen podcast, speaks about the power of play in making learning relevant

Badges are no longer a trend -- they are becoming a legitimate way to demonstrate knowledge, skills and credentials.

What might be a good use of badges for professional development? A few higher ed institutions and beginning to wrestle with this idea.

Features the game Caterpillar developed for 6th graders to learn about probability. Game designed by Quest to Learn in collaboration with teachers and game designers. This shows how problems are on the edge of just out of reach. Learning with a challenge.

What does PBL look like in a common core classroom?