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Game-Based Learning Design Workshop
Posted by Laura Gatto on
"The single best opportunity for innovation in education is to gather teachers together in professional development programs that are pedagogy-centered, so that they can hone their teaching techniqu...
“Read all About it” in our December Newsletter
Posted by Andrew Gardner on
Extra! Extra! The December 2013 edition of our newsletter has hit the stands. Get the latest on our holiday offer; the slew of new Tech & Science games on GameUp; the ways we supported CSEdWeek; r...
SimCityEDU – The Newest Release from GlassLab
Posted by Andrew Gardner on
Remember SimCity, Will Wright's famous game in which you create the city of your dreams? Recently Glasslab, a nonprofit video game development group based at the California campus of game publisher E...
From Theory to Practice to Evaluation: Game-Based Learning in Action
Posted by Steve Ji on
These 5 articles help demonstrate just some of the many beneficial values of game-based learning.
Five Video Games Your Middle Schooler Should Be Playing (Plus a Bonus One)
In this article, game...
Game-Based Learning Resources
Posted by SM Bruner on
We offer game-based learning lesson plans, research on games for learning, game making tools, student-made games, and more to support game-based-learning (GBL) using GameUp....
Ninja Kitchen is now on GameUp
Posted by SM Bruner on
We at BrainPOP are super excited to present the Ninja Kitchen game from our partners at NMSU's Learning Games Lab! Ninja Kitchen is a unique and innovative game that allows students in grades 3-8 to e...
Guts and Bolts™: SnapThought Prompts
Posted by SM Bruner on
Have your students signed up for My BrainPOP? If so, they’ll be able to take snapshots during Guts and Bolts game play! MyBrainPOP is available to BrainPOP Educators with 24/7 district- or school-wide...
Teaching with Games GLPC Case Study: Ginger
Posted by SM Bruner on
The Joan Ganz Cooney Center released new research about teaching with games from their Games and Learning Publishing Council initiative. They conducted a series of video case studies and a national s...
BrainPOP & Friends at SXSWEdu: Game On and GameUp
Posted by cemignano on
Explore the many different voices in games for teaching and learning! Thanks to you and your votes, our panel “Listen Up! Speak Up! GameUp! A Game Data Discussion,” has made it into 2014’s SXSWedu fes...
Developing Ethical Decision-Making Through Play
Posted by SM Bruner on
Can a game teach children to navigate ethical minefields? Scot Osterweil (of MIT Education Arcade) and Peter Stidwill (Learning Games Network) designed Quandary to do just that. They’ll demo this mult...
