PAX Dev 2014 – You Have Died of Dysentery: Games in Education Are Still Alive
In the early nineties, traditional educational games such as Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego and Oregon Trail pioneered the way for learning to be fun (and taught us that you can only carry 200...
PAX East 2014 – Teaching With Video Games – How Not to Screw it Up
Oftentimes schools take good ideas and inadvertently wreck them. Video games are being introduced into classrooms by people who don't play them, resulting in missed potential. Edutainment and...
PAX Prime 2013 – Crafting Minecraft: The Future of Gaming is Open Source Culture
Video game fan communities have a strong history of co-production with official game developers, through mods, bug testing, and community feedback. One possible future is expanding upon this...
Ninety-seven percent of all adolescents in the US play video games, & more than half of the adults in this country play video games regardless of their race or income. The military has...
PAX East 2013 – Video Games and Ethics: Challenges and Controversies
Video games are the ever-increasing focus for controversial issues such as bullying, misogyny, sexism, as well as depictions of sex and violence. However, as we all know, video games can be a...
Do you take classes? Do you teach classes? Wouldn’t those classes be more exciting and engaging and memorable if they had some of the same alluring qualities of your favorite games? Concepts that...
