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Announcing the GLS Playful Learning Summit! Are you an educator passionate or curious about game-based learning and digital media?  You are invited to register for the 2013 Games+Learning+Society Playful Learning Summit (formerly GLS Educators Symposium, or GLSES).  The inaugural Playful Learning Summit at the GLS 9.0 Conference will take place on Tuesday, June 11th at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Memorial Union from 8 A.M. to 6:00 P.M. Come Play: Keynote and Workshops The Playful Learning Summit will feature: A keynote address by Dani Herro, Assistant Professor for Digital Media and Learning at Clemson University.  Dani is a teacher educator with deep Wisconsin roots – she is the former Instructional Technology Administrator of Oconomowoc Schools and is a GLS alumna having earned her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2010.  The theme of her keynote address is “connected learning.” Over a dozen hands-on workshops relevant to educators across grade levels and content areas.  This year’s workshops will explore STEM education, digital storytelling, video game design, affinity spaces and literacy education, and the design of “gameful” classrooms, curricula, and experiences.  For educators interested in playful “low-tech” games, come learn about improvisation, engaging lessons through physical movement, and gaming for social justice…. Read the Rest»

Heading to the SXSWEduConference and Festival, March 4-7 in Austin? Be sure to check out Got Game? Learning Through Play. Seriously. Taking place on Monday, March 4 at 3:00 PM, it features our very own Arturo Guajardo,Texas District Relations Manager, as well as some of our amazing GameUp partners. Arturo, with Jennifer Groff (Learning Games Network), Dan White (Filament Games), and Michael Angst (E-Line Media), will explore the role of learning games, barriers to their implementation, and related research. Plus, you’ll have the chance to to play games alongside the panelists. Don’t miss this session bringing together the perspectives of true game development and education experts. We’re thrilled that many of our GameUp partners are set to participate in other SXSW sessions as well. Among those you might want to add to your schedule are Educating the Create and Share Generation; Mind the Gap: Games, Impact, Potential, Reality; LRMI: A Peek Under the Hood of Personalized Learning; and How to Play: Models for Game-Based Learning. You’re guaranteed to leave SXSWEdu feeling inspired! Keep up with the action on Twitter with #SXSWEdu and @brainpop.

Boston Area Teachers! Friday, 11 January 2013, 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. EST Join local learning game designers, educational researchers, and fellow teachers for an intimate one-day professional development workshop designed to help make game design a reality in your classroom. Organized by BrainPOP, Learning Games Network, and the MIT Education Arcade, the day will focus on new ways we can all make learning playful for our students. Learning game designers, researchers, and educators will lead sessions on how you can more effectively integrate BrainPOP’s GameUp resources into your classroom teaching and introduce the Learning Games Network’s Game Design Tool Kit as a way to engage students in conceptual game design. In the afternoon, you’ll be the first to play a handful of new games, produced earlier in the the week by teams of designers and programmers from MIT, BrainPOP, Learning Games Network, and Emerson College’s Engagement Lab; these new games are being produced to help us better assess and understand student learning through games! We’re looking for Boston-area teachers to join us for this exciting and productive professional development program. Each participant will leave with a sense that… Game-based learning is doable! It’s educational! Teachers can shape the direction of games being… Read the Rest»

Today marks day 4 of the week long marathon known as the Global Education Conference!  Here are some highlights from BrainPOP’s Games and Learning Strand. At 8:00AM, Join Danny Fain, STEM Teacher-in-Residence, Learning Games Network and Michael Suen, Community Producer, Learning Games Network for Collaborative Game Development Tools and Projects.  This session will explore how game design and production are emerging as an effective way to engage students across the curriculum. At 11:00 AM ET, tune into Prelude To Collaboration: A Global Learning Game in which Dr. Howard B. Esbin, PhD will present an overview of a powerful global learning game called Prelude. Prelude fosters self-knowledge, empathy, creativity, and collaboration. At 3:00 PM, Join Daria Ng and Joliz Cedeño , from Global Kids for a session called: Developing Global Citizenship Skills Through Game Design in which they will explore how serious games and game design can be used as a way to educate and engage youth about global issues and civic engagement, while enhancing their real-world problem solving skills. These 3 session are only a small sampling of the dozens planned for Thursday! Check out the rest of the schedule and get your PD on!

BrainPOP is thrilled to be a sponsor of one of the most innovative professional development conferences to hit the web!  The 3rd annual Global Education Conference is a free 5 day, 24/7, 300+ session extravaganza and it started yesterday.  With so much to navigate, this handy “conference guide” is a great entry point to the conference.  BrainPOP is specifically sponsoring all the conference sessions spotlighting Game Based Learning and Game Design in the context of Global Education. If you’ve been enjoying BrainPOP’s GameUp, check out some of the following sessions: Tuesday – (Time listed GMT-5, Eastern Time)  Bright and early at 8AM (if you’re on the east coast of the USA) you can join Learning Games Network director Alex Chisholm for an exploration of a killer game for ELL called Xenos Isle.  His session is called: Play Games-Learn English: Learning Games Network and Game-Based Language Learning Resources Later in the evening, join Dr Bronwyn Stuckey & Professor Sasha Barab present a special Keynote session  Next Generation Learning: Games and Global Community from 10-11PM On Wednesday at 8:00 AM learn about the joy of learning in a MOOC with Instructional Designer Kae Novak: Games MOOC: Where M stands for Modest and C stands for Community.  Tune… Read the Rest»

Perhaps the coolest camp ever, I recently had the opportunity to visit Learning Games Network’s summer program, Design Corps Boot Camp, at MIT. The camp offers middle school teachers and students the opportunity to work with professionals in Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, and more. It’s a bit late for this year, but definitely something to keep an eye out for next summer. Are you using game design with your students? How? We’d love to hear about it!