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2021 Digital Games Expo

You can participate in the virtual educational video games expo June 1 – June 5 developed through Department of Education sponsorship. The site provides various resources including a link to YouTube videos describing more than a hundred games. This is … Continue reading

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Longevity of the Oregon Trail

Veterans of the Apple II era likely developed their interest in educational games playing Oregon Trail. I happened across this extended Atlantic piece on the game and the interest in may have developed in those who played it.

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Radix

Educators interested games in the classroom should pay attention to a new MOOC-game being developed at MIT – RADIX. I have long felt that the evaluation of games was being held back by the inability to generate games of the … Continue reading

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Video games and violence

Ed technology advocates interested in games end up dealing with the violence in commercial video games. Some (Gee) encourage an exploration of the popularity of such games in order to discover what mights such challenging experiences attractive. The rest of … Continue reading

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