Tag: education

Games have the power to drastically improve schools and classrooms. Games of all sorts – board, card, role-playing, video, and beyond – can transform student engagement, heighten learning, and...

This panel tackles the big question: How can I make games for a living? Countless programs are popping up, promising the perfect training needed to create games. It’s as simple as attend class,...

Every day, thousands of gamers suffer from a lack of other gamers in their life.  You've got a couple of people to play with, sure, but you know that you could play all of your awesome games so much...

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...

Let’s talk seriously about video games in the classroom beyond gamification. Hospital teacher Erin Ryan will focus on defeating common stereotypes against educational gaming in the pursuit of...

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...