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 …
Games for Learning: Three Fields of Study
When I began working in games research about a decade ago, games for learning was still the catch-all term to describe any intersection of the two ideas. Over the last …
Game Learning: Authentic Experience
A major part of experiential learning is providing the learner with authentic experience. We can use games and game learning to simulate authentic experiences to a degree that normal instruction …
Narrative Learning with Games
What’s in a story? Essentially everyone old enough to process language knows the basics of story and storytelling. We know that stories usually have characters, a setting, a plot, a …
Games for Experiential Learning: A Primer for Researchers and Educators
One of the most powerful affordances that researchers and educators find in games is their ability to act as experiential learning tools. Scholars Dieleman and Husingh (2004), Kurt Squire (), …
Game-based Learning: How it works
Whether you’re interested in studying game-based learning as a teacher or a game developer, your first step should be understanding why and how games empower learning. Why? Well, at the …
NASAGA’s Games for Learning Blog Series & Wiki
As part of our mission to make research into serious games and games for learning, NASAGA is kicking off 2021 with a bold new project. We are building a games …
Game-based Learning: Catan in the Classroom
As a board member of NASAGA, I have long had an interest in game-based learning. I’m also a career educator, so I actually use games as learning tools in my …
Locally Played by Ben Stokes – Book Review
Locally Played Amid the chaos that was April of 2020 the MIT Press released Locally Played, which will no doubt be seen as a significant contribution to the literature of …
Games Research (Alone) Won’t Save Us
It’s January 7 when I am writing this, about 3 PM Eastern. 24 hours ago the US Capitol building was stormed by rioters. I am sitting down to write a …