Confronting Racial Essentialism in Dungeons & Dragons
The last few months, NASAGA’s blog has been talking a good amount about Dungeons & Dragons. As the writer for NASAGA, maybe it’s time I come clean. I love D&D. …
The last few months, NASAGA’s blog has been talking a good amount about Dungeons & Dragons. As the writer for NASAGA, maybe it’s time I come clean. I love D&D. …
The following is based on ongoing unpublished research conducted by the author. Names and any other identifiable specifics have been changed in accordance with wishes of the participants. It’s the …
by Raymond A. “Ray” Kimball, EdD (he/him) This week we welcome Dr. Ray Kimball, founder of 42 Ed Games Coaching and Design, and a long-term advocate for games-based learning. Like …
Welcome, gamers, to 2022 with the North American Simulation and Games Association! 2021 has hissed its last toxic breath, whispering promises that it will revenge itself upon us one day. …
This week we welcome back 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …