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Leveling Up: How Digital Game-Based Learning Is Altering Education

EdNews Daily

To put it in the words of an elementary student at the 2004 Serious Games Summit, “Why read about ancient Rome when I can build it?”. Game-based learning should not be confused with gamification. Gamification takes an element of education and replaces it with a game-based element. Effectiveness of Digital Game-Based Learning.

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What Does the Popularity of Pokémon Go Mean for K-12 Gaming? A Q-and-A With James Gee

Marketplace K-12

He has written several books on the role of games and learning, including What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy (2003) and Language and Learning (2004). In fact, it’s been said, and I think I agree, that it’s not much of a game, but it’s a great gamification of the social media experience.

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Education Technology and the Year of Wishful Thinking

Hack Education

.” This was what the mother of a nineteen-year-old killed by a bomb in Kirkuk said on an HBO documentary quoted by Bob Herbert in The New York Times on the morning of November 12, 2004. Indeed, she’s quite methodical with her study – her inspection, introspection – of grief. That famous Arthur C.