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 – Educational Video Gaming for the Millennial Generation
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...
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...
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...
Steven Swink is an educational game developer promoting useful game design techniques that positively enhance games for use in educational settings.
PAX East 2013 – Gamification and Learning: Does Education Need Some ‘Stinking’ Badges?
There have been success stories and colossal failures when it comes to applying principles of gamification to various different fields. However, schools and education could greatly benefit from some...
