Category Archives: Games and Gaming

This isn’t a reaction to the panels I’ve attended at the meeting: they had some educational or learning games that I thought were terrific, smart, well-designed, and educationally effective. It’s more a reaction to some of the games I saw … Continue reading →

I’m at a roundtable panel on World of Warcraft with seven presenters (Bielema, Bielema, Chen, Hay, Kelly, Malone, Steinkuehler.) P. Bielema argues that you could map “real things” onto the Warcraft template to make it educational. E. Bielema is looking … Continue reading →

I’m at a panel on the use of games to help students in science education. I came in part way through Melissa Gresalfi and Anna Arici’s presentation on two games-based approaches in 6th grade science education based around something called … Continue reading →

I’m at the second morning panel, this one focused our design, with three presentations from designers and developers. One of the issues that often comes up at games-related conferences and meetings is the supposed divide between academic researchers and developers … Continue reading →

I’m here at the Games + Learning + Society conference in Madison. I’ve wanted to come for years to this meeting, as it often involves some people whose work I think is terrific, and it’s always an interesting-looking well-organized meeting … Continue reading →