Steven Swink is an educational game developer promoting useful game design techniques that positively enhance games for use in educational settings.
Tag: education
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...
PAX East 2012 – Educating Through Play: The Future of American Education
Our educational system is broken. It is based on a model that was designed for a time before the combustion engine, much less the personal computer or the Internet. Games inherently...