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"Around the country, a new career-minded education standard is slowly edging out the old academic focus on Lord Of the Flies book summaries and five-paragraph essays. So far 42 states have pledged to adopt the (coercively) voluntary standards championed by President Obama, the National Governors Association, and billionaire education crusader, Bill Gates. While educators are slowly dipping their feet into the pool of critical thinking, persuasive communications, and exploratory learning, the Gates foundation is looking to swing the direction of the standards with a mega-investment in digital learning."

Serious games (SGs) or persuasive games are computer and video games used as persuasion technology or educational technology. They can be similar to educational games, but are often intended for an audience outside of primary or secondary education.

Digital Storytelling is the practice of using computer-based tools to tell stories. As with traditional storytelling, most digital stories focus on a specific topic and contain a particular point of view. However, as the name implies, digital stories usually contain some mixture of computer-based images, text, recorded audio narration, video clips and/or music. Digital stories can vary in length, but most of the stories used in education typically last between two and ten minutes. The topics that are used in Digital Storytelling range from personal tales to the recounting of historical events, from exploring life in one's own community to the search for life in other corners of the universe, and literally, everything in between. A great way to begin learning about Digital Storytelling is by watching the following video introduction to Digital Storytelling.

For those of us raised in typical school settings, the memory of straight-row desks with little activity is all too familiar. As we're all aware, the Kinect has the potential to evolve classrooms beyond this 18th century model of learning to a structure that's aligned with brain research and the benefits of active learning.

I'm often asked if I know of any games for subject "x," "y," or "z" for a particular grade level or age group. My answer is usually yes, but I need to search my archives. Therefore, I've gone through my archives and dug up many of games that I've mentioned over the last four years that are still active online.

The Serious Games Initiative was founded at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington, D.C. The Serious Games Initiative is focused on uses for games in exploring management and leadership challenges facing the public sector. Part of its overall charter is to help forge productive links between the electronic game industry and projects involving the use of games in education, training, health, and public policy.

This website has been developed for educators seeking to infuse traditional writing instruction with new emerging technologies in such a way as to excite young writers through the composition of personal narrative stories, integration of family photographs, recorded voice narration and multi-media productio

Hi, I'm Ian Bogost. I am a designer, philosopher, critic, and researcher who focuses on computational media-videogames in particular. I'm also an author and an entrepreneur. I am a professor at Georgia Tech (a university), a Founding Partner at Persuasive Games (a videogame studio), and a Board Member at Open Texture (an educational publisher).

Breaking news about Astronaut: Moon, Mars and Beyond can be found on the News Page of the Forum Have a visit, and don't forget don't check out the latest from NASA as well, including the Twitter #NASAMMO The NASA Learning Technologies (LT) project supports the development of projects that deliver NASA content through innovative applications of technologies to enhance education in the areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).

On the Heroes of Newerth forums, a player asked: "Could you show me a few games that you have developed? A link or two maybe? I'm not asking you this with any reference to this thread, I want to learn game development and so I want a starting point." Since I am one of the Heroes of Newerth programmers, others might be interested in how I got to this point. Here are the steps I followed. Anyone who knows me will tell you the same thing: I'm not exactly Einstein, if you know what I mean. :) If I can follow these steps, then so can you. Yes, you. The only reason you personally can't become a game developer right now, just like you dream about, is because you choose not to.

From our humble beginning in June of 1999, GameDev.net has emerged as the leading online community for game developers of all levels, from the green beginner to the seasoned industry veteran. Over 350,000 developers from around the world return here regularly to take advantage of our frequently updated developer news, thousands of articles and other resources, amazingly active forums, and most importantly to be a part of the growing international community of game developers.

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