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07 Aug 09

FRONTLINE: digital nation: blog/news: A chat with Obama's new Secretary of Education | PBS

Arne Duncan on using the toys kids love--games and cellphones--to teach them, inside and outside the classroom walls.

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25 Apr 09

Club Time Machine v2.0 | EN | Home

Club Time Machine™ became an adventurous world and a perfect example on how kids in the age of 6-12 years can be educated and entertained at the same time. It is our goal to keep kids challenged on a daily bases by adding new games, e-learning modules and by organizing events.

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20 Apr 09

Virginia DOE Pilots Immersive Gaming Statewide : April 2009 : THE Journal

The Virginia Department of Education's Office of Education Technology has recently announced a pilot program using Tabula Digita's immersive educational video game, DimensionM.

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25 Jan 09

WiiLearn » home

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07 Jan 09

Freechild Article | "Why Play Games..." By Adam Fletcher

Why Play Games When There's Work to Do? Fun, Games and Social Change

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01 Dec 08

Club Penguin - Waddle around and meet new friends!

Virtual world where children could play games, have fun and interact.

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Alice.org

Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a teaching tool for introductory computing. It uses 3D graphics and a drag-and-drop interface to facilitate a more engaging, less frustrating first programming experience.

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22 Nov 08

Disney wants your child online: MMOs for tweens (and below): Page 1

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"You know what an MMO is, right?"
The challenge is making a persistent online world that's both safe and compelling.
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Game-Based Learning: How to Delight and Instruct in the 21st Century (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE CONNECT

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- five leading-edge thinkers in the field: James Paul Gee, J. C. Herz, Randy Hinrichs, Marc Prensky, and Ben Sawyer.
- power-performanced learning
- In summary, up to this point, education has been based on a model of scarcity because it was very hard to get good academic material. It was hard to get the right kinds of books. It was hard to get access to the teachers. So naturally, school formed a solution, an economical way of delivering information, using the classroom model, using the teacher model. What you basically got is a really constrained environment. Today, it’s about abundance: what do the models for learning look like now?
- But it’s not about the technology. It’s about the way that your culture is organized.
- College is becoming, for many undergraduates, a social experience.
- But absent a one-on-one tutorial, it’s very difficult to do that. You get into small groups, and you have active discussions, but once you scale the group up, it becomes very difficult because you can’t push sixty people individually to the limits of their knowledge.
- you can create an online environment where those sixty people can push against the limits of their knowledge. And that becomes something different and very important. That’s what simulations are good for.
- Because one of the most effective uses of simulation is as a mechanism to surface assumptions. You put the simulation up there, and people play it out, and in the course of playing it out, they question the underlying rules of the game.
- One of the hallmarks of a good game is that it creates a game community. In order to play this game, players have to get information from other sources. They have to explore. They have to communicate. They have to post.
- They are handing off and reinforcing each other’s learning. You don’t get that in a classroom. Not often.
- You really have to think in terms of how to bring learning to networks of people, to groups of people.