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Lessons on Gamification
http://www.techedupteacher.com/year-in-review-lessons-on-gamification/
Lessons on Gamification
I’ve learned a lot after a year of working with fifth and sixth graders in our blended, gamified makerspace.
Our makerspace, called The Innovation Lab, is built on four pillars: Comp Sci, Design & Engineering, Digital Arts, and Entrepreneurship. It also uses game-mechanics to help deliver content and engage students. I started the year with my gamification basics: Epic Meaning, Leaderboards, Achievements, and Item Shop system I’ve been developing for years.
Then things changed.

Best Practices Around Implementing Educational Games
http://www.slideshare.net/LindseyTropf/best-practices-for-games

Best Practices Around Implementing Educational Games from Lindsey Tropf

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The Culture of Games
http://creatingthefuturetoday.com/pages/4
The Culture of Games
The idea of games in education is often narrowly interpreted through the prism of a specific game such as World of Warcraft, which, because it builds strong guilds and demonstrates the power of play in groups, is an easy target for such assertions.
Massively multiplayer online games are one type of game, and the skills built within them can have great impact, but this project interprets “games” far more broadly to encompass systems deliberately engineered for maximum participation.

What Teachers Really Think About Game Based Learning
https://bit.ly/Xm3nwL
What Teachers Really Think About Game Based Learning
We Are Teachers, an online resource for educators, surveyed teachers about how they use games and found that 67% use traditional and digital games in the classroom. Just 22% said they didn’t have time to integrate digital games and 56% say they don’t have adequate access to computers for digital game time.

Gamification with Chris Haskell
https://youtu.be/NnMTuTzRrb4

Games, Learning, and New Media
http://vimeo.com/16633028

Professor and Game Designer Katie Salen on Games, Learning, and New Media from DML Research Hub on Vimeo.

Games to Learn [ScoopIT Collection]
http://www.scoop.it/t/games2learn

Paul Andersen - Classroom Game Design
https://youtu.be/4qlYGX0H6Ec

Infographic: About the Gamification of Education
https://bit.ly/HwrMsp
Infographic: About the Gamification of Education
This is an excellent infographic putting together key information about gamifying learning. You will find a short history of gamified learning. The summary from MIT's paper "Moving Learning Games Forward" highlights all the gaming functions that can be integrated into education(with examples). The full whitepaper can be download here. A very important point made by MIT "The Education Arcade" is quoted here: ....

Ten reasons why game based learning works
http://bit.ly/xevAb8
Ten reasons why game based learning works in education

Shamblesguru 'Videos Games Research' Video List on Youtube
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6E0AF2773125E98A

How Computer Games Help Children Learn
http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/02/how-computer-games-help-children-learn/
How Computer Games Help Children Learn
Epistemic games are computer games that are essentially about learning to think in innovative ways. They’re designed to be pedagogical tools for the digital age where the player learns to think like professionals by playing a simulated game of such professions as management, engineering, journalism or urban planning.

Profile of a gamer [infographic]
http://holykaw.alltop.com/profile-of-a-gamer-infographic
Profile of a gamer [infographic]

Playing games in school
https://bit.ly/9cyu2l
Playing games in school
Using videos helps students love to learn their lessons

Video games have 'role in school'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5398230.stm
Video games have 'role in school'
Video games could have a serious role to play in the classroom, a survey of teachers and students suggests.
The Teaching with Games report was commissioned by games giant Electronic Arts (EA) and carried out by FutureLab.
It surveyed almost 1,000 teachers and more than 2,300 primary and secondary school students in the UK.
The survey found 59% of teachers would consider using off-the-shelf games in the classroom while 62% of students wanted to use games at school.

Games for Change (G4C)
http://gamesforchange.org/
Games for Change (G4C) is a non-profit which seeks to harness the extraordinary power of video games to address the most pressing issues of our day, including poverty, education, human rights, global conflict and climate change.
G4C acts as a voice for the transformative power of games, bringing together organizations and individuals from the nonprofit sector, government, journalism, academia, industry and the arts, to grow the sector and provide a platform for the exchange of ideas and resources.
Through this work, Games for Change promotes new kinds of games that engage contemporary social issues in meaningful ways to foster a more just, equitable and tolerant society.

The future of games (DICE 2010)
http://bit.ly/bpdyS7
Jesse Schell’s mindblowing talk on the future of games (DICE 2010)

PS3 Games - E3 2010 - Guitar Hero 5

Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE1DuBesGYM

Edurealms ... Blog
http://edurealms.com/
Edurealms Blog
Where gaming and education converge

Using computer games for learning and social interaction
http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=531
Using computer games as a context for learning and social interaction
After a brief introduction Ollie Bray describes the use of commercially available computer games in the classroom. In particular he focuses on why the use of games are appropriate for learning and teaching.
#K12Online09

Grading with Games
http://www.edutopia.org/james-gee-games-learning-video
Grading with Games: An Interview with James Paul Gee (video)
An Arizona State University professor sees a bright future for video games in the learning process -- in and out of school.

Educational Games Research (Blog)
http://edugamesblog.wordpress.com/
Research and discussion concerning instructional video games.

Slaying Myths About Video Games (Part 1
http://bit.ly/17B2Ywn
Slaying Myths About Video Games (Part 1)
.... after a few weeks something about the underlying structure of the game began to look very familiar. When you look past the Orcs, Gnomes, and other fanciful inhabitants and elements, you find Blizzard has built an elegant and engaging learning management system.
WoW does an outstanding job of guiding players to their zone of proximal development and provides a neverending stream of feedback and fresh challenges while leaving the player in charge.

Serious Games (Blog)
http://seriousgamesblog.blogspot.com/
Serious Games (Blog)
Serious games (SGs) or persuasive games are computer and video games used as persuasion technology or educational technology.
They can be similar to educational games, but are often intended for an audience outside of primary or secondary education.
Serious games can be of any genre and many of them can be considered a kind of edutainment.

Serious Games : Social Network
http://seriousgames.ning.com/
Serious Games : Social Network .... an excellent location to find answers to any questions you have about online gaming and simulations.

Serious Games
http://bit.ly/17B386Y
Serious Games : 38 minute mp3 audio podcast
Stephen Berlin Johnson brings a unique perspective to the consideration of the cultural impact of video games.
Until recently, the discussion of video games focused primarily on the negative aspects ?the violence, immorality and potential for addiction.
He points out that this conversation has shifted and is beginning to accept that there are positive benefits inherent in playing video games.
Johnson argues that judgment of video games should consider the intellectual and problem solving skills they require.

Will Gaming Transform the Web?
http://bit.ly/17B35bx
Will Gaming Transform the Web? : A Panel Discussion : audio / podcast / mp3
In this freewheeling panel discussion from Web 2.0, three game industry leaders discuss with Mark C. Stevens the changes they've seen in the gaming world and how they believe it will develop in the future.
The gaming community is huge, with over 30 billion hours played each year. 70% of 18-34 year old, PC-using males, are gamers.
But it's a changing world too. The average age is increasing, and more women are joining. And play is slowly migrating from console games to mobile devices.

Online Games and Digital Information Services
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december05/kirriemuir/12kirriemuir.html
Online Games and Digital Information Services

Game Studies
http://www.gamestudies.org/
Game Studies is a crossdisciplinary journal dedicated to games research, web-published several times a year at www.gamestudies.org.
Our primary focus is aesthetic, cultural and communicative aspects of computer games.
Our mission - To explore the rich cultural genre of games; to give scholars a peer-reviewed forum for their ideas and theories; to provide an academic channel for the ongoing discussions on games and gaming.

Video Gaming, Education and Digital Learning
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/february02/kirriemuir/02kirriemuir.html
Video Gaming, Education and Digital Learning Technologies
This article presents an overview of video gaming and discusses how gaming is related and relevant to digital libraries and digital learning technologies. It suggests that these relationships are worthy of more detailed investigation.
The article begins with information about video games and gaming consoles, a comparison of consoles and the PC, and some observations on the network capabilities of consoles. Next, the relevance of gaming to academia is highlighted, and the relevance of games and consoles to learning technologies is considered.

The Video Game Librarian
http://www.gamingtarget.com/article.php?artid=3982
The Video Game Librarian
Libraries and video games have never managed to hit it off. Several games, including GoldenEye and Halo, have levels called "The Library", but that's really where it ends.
Until now. Public libraries all over the country have been adding video games to their collections. Its very possible that a library in your hometown has games on its shelf right now.

Playtime in the classroom
http://education.guardian.co.uk/elearning/story/0,10577,1496931,00.html
Playtime in the classroom : Guardian Newspaper Article
Can children really learn anything useful from computer games?

The Education Arcade
http://education.mit.edu/
The Games-to-Teach Project is made possible by a research grant from Microsoft iCampus.
Project activities are coordinated with the Learning Sciences and Technologies Group of Microsoft Research, led by Randy Hinrichs.
The Education Arcade represents a consortium of international game designers, publishers, scholars, educators, and policy makers who are exploring the new frontiers of educational media that have been opened by computer and video games.
The Teachers' Arcade is a group of teachers, educators, and policy makers investigating the potential of using commercial and video games to support learning. Many of us are interested in using games in classrooms, but just as many are thinking of how to use games in home schools, after school centers, and in museum settings. The Teachers' Arcade is a resource for sharing teaching tips, curricular models, lesson plans, and custom game modifications. You can find both practical tips and assistance as well as a supportive community of like-minded teachers.