Three Awesome Educational Games Hiding in Plain Sight
By Tanner Higgin, Graphite When I was in school, game-based learning was a novelty. This was the era of Math Blaster!, Lemonade Stand and Oregon Trail, when game-based learning meant digitized practice...
View ArticleThree Games About Viruses That Teach Interconnectedness
By Matthew Farber Inside a classroom, opportunities to learn about common viruses arise when illnesses cycle through, like the cold, flu and some conjunctivitis. Those ailments often come and go with...
View ArticleHow Games Can Be Used To Teach College-Level Chinese Courses
By Paul Darvasi Tensions ran high as a stern detective interrogated a group of American students at a Beijing police station. The questions were fired in Mandarin, but the students stood their ground...
View ArticleCan Games and Badges Motivate College Students to Learn?
By Paul Darvasi At what point does an educator turn to games? K-12 educators have a good track record of using games to engage children, but when it comes to higher education, students are largely on...
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Teaching Geopolitics: Fantasy Football as a Learning Game
From The Game Believes in You by Greg Toppo. Copyright (c) 2015 by the authors and reprinted by permission of Palgrave Macmillan, a division of St. Martin’s Press, LLC. North Lakes Academy inhabits one...
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How to Turn Digital Games Into a Fun Physical Learning Experience at School
In order to take learning to the next level, there’s an experiment in Pittsburgh that brings game designers closer to the educators who want games for learning. The hope is that by working together,...
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Taking the First Steps Towards Teaching With Video Games
Educators at Nordahl Grieg Upper Secondary, a public high school in Norway, are taking a unique approach to teaching that treats video games as just another classroom tool. If teachers use books,...
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Why Kids Should Make the Video Games They Love to Play
When educator Lynn Koresh hears from kids that they want a career doing something with computers, she asks, “To do what with computers?” Adults often encourage kids to pursue science, technology,...
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Can an Immersive Video Game Teach the Nuances of American History?
The students in Scott Jackson’s eleventh grade American History class have almost no common knowledge about the country’s early beginnings and important moments. His students at Brooklyn International...
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What Do Sixth Graders Say About Learning With Games? It Works
By Alexandria Neason This story was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Read more about technology in the...
View ArticleFor the Hesitant Teacher: Leveraging the Power of Minecraft
If there’s any video game that has successfully made its way into the classroom, it’s Minecraft. There’s a small subset of teachers using all kinds of digital games in interesting ways, but the...
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Books-to-Games: Transforming Classic Novels Into Role Playing Adventures
Authors, editors and publishers spend months and years refining a book until it’s ready to be published. That publication date is part of the book’s copyright and marks the completion of the book. But...
View ArticleFour Inventive Games That Show Us the Future of Learning
By Tanner Higgin, Graphite I think of contemporary art as a kind of futurism. Artists tinker away in their studios like engineers, making challenging (often weird) things that reframe what’s possible....
View ArticlePursuing Quests: How Digital Games Can Create a Learning Journey
By Paul Darvasi Completing missions for rewards is a core mechanic in many video games, including best-sellers like “World of Warcraft,” “Grand Theft Auto,” “Fallout” and “Skyrim.” Quests are diverse...
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2016 Tech Tool Tourney: Games Edition!
Round 2 (updated 3/20/16) What is the best game-based tool for learning? In the spirit of March Madness, join us for the Tech Tool Tourney, hosted by Common Sense Graphite and KQED MindShift. This...
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How A Chess Grandmaster Uses The Game To Teach Life Skills
A few “short” years ago, during my sophomore year at The City College of New York, some fellow Caribbean classmates told me that the education department was offering a “free” course, called Thinking...
View ArticleHow Video Game Theatre Sparks New Life into the Classics
The classics may seem like an endangered species in K-12 curriculums as they become increasingly incompatible with a wired generation accustomed to novelty, online interaction and instant...
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3 Digital Tools for Helping Students Gain Perspective on Immigration
By Erin Wilkey Oh, Common Sense Education As the debate over U.S. immigration policy continues to divide voters across the country, more and more online resources are popping up to help us understand...
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4 Tools To Help Kids Understand Conflict and Self-Control
Let’s face it: Kids have diverse opinions and they’re bound to disagree with one another. Today arguments occur not only in the hallway or classroom, but online as well. And whether or not these...
View ArticleHow Online Camps Help Kids Stay Connected to STEM Skills and Mentors Year-Round
Earth’s molten core and the lost city of Atlantis are not traditional summer destinations for kids, but intrepid young campers can now contend with lava or rebuild the underwater metropolis as they...
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