Game-Based Learning

Get tips, techniques, and tools that apply the principles of game design to the learning process -- a dynamic way to engage learners and help educators assess learning.

Game-Based Learning
Digital Play for Serious Learning
Jordan Shapiro, author of The New Childhood, on the roles of parents and schools in teaching children to use technology through play.
Game-Based Learning
The Benefits of Constructionist Gaming
Playing and building games helps students understand complex systems—including their own systems of thinking.
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Turning Math Into a Game
Building a sense of play around math problems encourages students to engage and collaborate.
Mobile Learning
Using Math Apps to Increase Understanding
These 10 free or low-cost apps turn learning math into a game.
Student Engagement
The 8 Minutes That Matter Most
Like a story, lessons deserve compelling beginnings and endings. From pop culture connections to finishing with a level-up, here are eight strategies for holding students' attention.
Formative Assessment
5 Classroom Tools to Measure Student Learning
Formative assessment is a snap with games and other tools that let you see how students answer questions and review material.
Game-Based Learning
Ideas for Using Minecraft in the Classroom
Minecraft is no longer a new tool in the field of game-based learning. Because Minecraft has such open possibilities and potential, teachers have been experimenting with different ways to use it in the classroom for a while now to teach math concepts like ratios and proportions, while others use it to support student creativity and collaboration.
Assessment
A Look at Playful Assessment
Borrowing ideas from game construction can help teachers with both assessing student projects and constructing rubrics.
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Game-Based Learning: Resource Roundup
Check out Edutopia's collection of articles, videos, and resources on using video games, simulations, and gaming concepts in the classroom.
Coding in the Classroom
Getting the Most Out of Hour of Code
An hour of coding is a fun beginner’s experiment for teachers or parents to do with kids—these resources make it easy as well.
Classroom Management
Incentivizing Your Class: The Engagement-Based Classroom Management Model
Invite your students to participate in a behavioral model that helps them level up with their engagement and attitude -- much like a video game.
Literacy
March Madness in the Classroom?
Use NCAA-style brackets to get your students passionately debating works of literature—or big topics in any subject.
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3 Ways to Use Game-Based Learning
There are several strategies for gamifying your classwork, and they’re not mutually exclusive—you can combine them.
Game-Based Learning
Building a Sense of Community—With Math
MathMobs are friendly competitions that tap into students’ motivation to play to engage them in math.
Professional Development
It's Time to Make Learning Fun Again . . . Even for Adults
Bring professional development events to life with Interactive Learning Challenges, which merge collaboration, interactivity, and problem solving in a hands-on environment for learning technology.