Distributed Practice in Games-Based Learning
This week we welcome guest blogger Dave Eng, founder of University XP to illuminate some of the complex concepts surrounding distributed practice in games-based learning.Dave Eng is an intellectual and …
Using Democracy 3 to Teach Civics
In this month’s deep dive on using games for classroom education, we will be mixing theory and application as we explore Democracy 3, a wonderful little political simulator. This politics …
Is Gamification Still Bullshit?
In his landmark 2011 speech, Dr. Ian Bogost declared that “gamification is bullshit.” As one of the most prominent scholars on games (both then and now), these words challenged a …
August Learning Games Spotlight: Fiscal Ship
This month we will be starting a new series in the NASAGA blog: learning games spotlights. In this new series, we will spotlight games that were built to teach and …
Learning Games: Using Play to Teach
Playing to learn and learning to play are two fundamental concepts of the human experience. Learning games, often associated with the idea of “serious play”, can refer to either games …