The 2011 Microsoft Innovative Education Forum has come to an end. This year 102 incredible educators from all around the USA came together in Redmond,...
Charles Tsai | Posted 09.04.2011
Through role-playing games, you take on someone else's point of view and evaluate every key decision through that person's eyes. That's the very definition of empathy.
Nicole Skibola | Posted 08.29.2011
Games, as a medium for social change, reflect a shift in thinking about human behavior and happiness.
nytimes.com | FELICIA LEE | Posted 07.17.2011
Here an app, there an app, everywhere an apt app. Now, the New York Public Library has created a new iPad app that bring the library’s research coll...
salon.com | Natasha Lennard | Posted 07.12.2011
There are bigger and busier libraries in America, but none more iconic than the main branch of the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue, that state...
Zac Hill | Posted 07.10.2011
Clearly, the goal of the higher education system is not for everyone in America to get a JD or an MD or a Ph.D. But if you looked from a game design perspective, you'd very much think that it is.
Jane McGonigal | Posted 07.28.2011
The single biggest misconception about games is that they're an escapist waste of time. But more than a decade's worth of scientific research shows that gaming is actually one of the most productive ways we can spend time.
Dev Aujla | Posted 05.25.2011
A few weeks ago, the World Bank Institute launched a social network-based game called Evoke. In short, it's a ten-week crash course in changing the world.
Cheryl Arnett | Posted 09.30.2011