CUNY Games Network
Educators coming together to explore how the principles of games promote learning
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Interview with Dr. Robert Duncan about the Transformative Games Initiative at York College
Our very own Robert Duncan of the CUNY Games Network (pictured above in a very cool pic) is doing some excellent work with students at York College. He’s set up a game lab where students design and build digital learning games! He was recently interviewed by Daily Edventures about this work. Follow the link for [...]
Continue reading...UW-Madison partnership creates educational game development tools
Friday, June 15, 2012
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Studies highlight the benefits of playing educational video games, but a new partnership seeks to understand whether the act of designing video games boosts students’ computational thinking and science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) skills. Collaborating with Microsoft and the Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Foundation, education researchers at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, located at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, [...]
Continue reading...Globaloria: Students Create STEM Games
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
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Globaloria is the first and largest social learning network, where students develop digital literacies, STEM knowledge and global citizenship skills through game design. Globaloria sparks students’ imaginations as they learn to design and program their own STEM educational games through a mix of teacher-led instruction, team-based learning and online networking with experts and peers. [...]
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We connect educators from every campus and discipline at CUNY who are interested in games, simulations, and other forms of interactive teaching. We seek to facilitate the pedagogical uses of both digital and non-digital games, improve student success, and encourage research and scholarship in the developing field of games-based learning.
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