“In the following conversation with Gee, we discuss literacy, systems thinking, education, socio-economic inequality, and, of course, video games.”

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Games Can Advance Education: A […]

Study With the Best: Geek Subculture Through the CUNY Lens – YouTube.

Recently, CUNY TV requested to interview members of the CUNY Games Network. The segment below aired on Sunday, March 30, 2014. Fast-forward […]

Call for Papers: Edited Collection on the Cultural Influences of Role-Playing Games
 

Since its initial publication in 1974, the iconic role-playing game (RPG) Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) has spawned hundreds of […]

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Thin Layer vs Deep Level Gamification – Andrzejs Blog.

Next in line as part of the CUNY Graduate Center’s Utopian Studies Seminar on utopia and games is Ahmed Khaled Towfik’s Utopia (2009). Set in the near future in Egypt, the book explores what happens when bored […]

“A team of Caltech researchers has mined pop culture to create a new computer game that connects with youngsters who put up a wall between them and learning quantum mechanics.The researchers joined game […]

“Trip Hawkins founded Electronic Arts, the company behind the Madden NFL video game. His latest venture is heading in a very different direction: using the advances in gaming technology to teach children […]

“Nintendo has gone and built a slate intended for schools. The unreleased tablet runs Android and is designed for play educational games…”

via Nintendo Reportedly Working on an Android Tablet for Education […]

“Interactive games are set to be the new frontier in education for healthcare professionals HCPs according to a leading expert in e-learning.”

via Gaming to educate doctors – PMLiVE.

“A report by the market research group Ambient Insight found that edtech in the forms of learning games is not making its way into classrooms. Instead of educators making learning game purchases, marketers target […]

“Squire, a professor in the School of Education’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction, along with Constance Steinkuehler, an associate professor of digital media in the department, will teach a MOOC — Video […]

“Florida State University College of Education’s Fengfeng Ke, an assistant professor in the Educational Psychology and Learning Systems department, is creating a computer game called Earthquake Rebuild that […]

“Are serious games the classroom tool of the future? Is the future already here?  The tablet classroom may have once been the stuff of science fiction, but modern developments in technology and brain science may […]

“Some video games are designed to foster a fun experience, while others are meant to educate. One 3D video game, which was at the center of a recent University of California, San Francisco study, was specially […]

“Starting this fall, in order to graduate, every student at Olds College in Olds, Alta., will have to complete an iPad game in which they open a virtual lemonade stand and gradually build it into a business […]

“SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA, September 04, 2013 /24-7PressRelease/ — An educational app that will engage childrens eyes and ears with a combination of 3D animal characters, animation and games will be released. iCubis […]

“Joey Lee, Assistant Professor of Communication, Computing and Technology in Education, is the recipient of the 2012 Strage Junior Faculty Prize. Created in 2009, the prize supports the production of a short […]

“Students spent five weeks of the summer playing video games and then showed up at Monday’s Board of Education meeting to boast about it. The video games were part of a math and science camp attended by 120 […]