Posts on “ Games for Change ”

Today,  4pm ET, Join presenter Emily Treat, Senior Producer, Games for Change and our friends at EdWeb for a compelling webinar entitled: How To Integrate Game Design Activities Into Your Curriculum: A Guided Tour. Click here to attend!

What Do Teachers Really Think About Gaming in Education? A few months ago, BrainPOP teamed up with the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop and embarked on a research project to dig deep into that very question. In the next few days, we’ll be releasing that data, but we wanted to give you a sneak peek behind the scenes of Teacher Attitudes about Digital Games in the Classroom. The entire process has been a fantastic learning opportunity for us and will help shape the direction we move with GameUp.   My partner in crime, Jessica Millstone, Research Consultant at the Joan Ganz Cooney Center and I were fortunate to visit the classrooms of many talented teachers for the first part of the study. Through video interviews and classroom observations, we captured these teachers different perspectives and approaches to integrating online games in these classrooms.   For the second part of the study, we surveyed 500 teachers nationally. We weren’t surprised to learn that over 60 percent of educators surveyed feel that games helped increase engagement with subject-area content among lower-performing students. We did, however, learn that 62 percent report that games make it easier for them to level lessons and effectively teach the range… Read the Rest»

If you can’t make it to our IMAX webinar tomorrow night, but you find yourself in upper Manhattan, please visit our friends at Teachers College Columbia University! Educational/Real-World Impact Games Festival: Featuring Scholar’s Quest and over a dozen educational game projects. Theme: Can YOU make a difference with games? Date: Wednesday, April 25 Location: 525 W 120 St., 1st Floor, Everett Lounge Time: 4-8 pm Stop by to play educational and real-world impact games designed by Columbia students and faculty Opportunities to interact and get involved with game-based research projects Enjoy free food and win prizes like a Kindle! Please join us for the Teachers College Games Festival! Explore a variety of game designs and research projects about language learning, physical chemistry, nutrition, math, climate change, ethics and more. Games include digital, non-digital, mobile and real-world action games. Special guests include Bernard Yee, Bungie Game Developer and Adjunct Professor of Game Production and Design. Sponsored by the Games Research Lab / Communication, Computing and Technology in Education Program and Department of Mathematics, Science and Technology.