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Connecticut Video Game Education on the Rise
“The global video game market is projected to exceed $80 billion by 2017. Connecticut’s portion of gaming industry revenues currently amounts to nearly $50 million a year according to the most recent study, “Video Games in the 21st Century: The 2010 Report,” released by the Entertainment Software Association. With such a sizzling market, jobs for [...]
Continue reading...Kinect Math and English Games
Sunday, April 28, 2013
These Kinect video games were submitted by David Renton of Reid Kerr College in the UK. Games are available at http://games4learning.co.uk/ Subject Area and Learning Outcomes Math and English. Games use multi-sensory active methodology to consolidate learning in the areas of Math and English. Summary Kinect Games include 4 separate games, all are one or [...]
Continue reading...Learning community explores how to use video game design in classrooms
Saturday, September 15, 2012
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Video games might usually be considered a mindless distraction from schoolwork, but one learning community at the University of Ohio’s Bowling Green camps believes the exact opposite. The one-year-old learning community, called “applying principles of video game design to improve student learning,” aims to do just that: use the philosophies of video games to better [...]
Continue reading...Grant funds game systems for schools
Friday, June 15, 2012
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. – State officials have spent $90,000 on 286 new video game systems in the hope the machines can be used to motivate 21st century schoolchildren to exercise. The state Department of Health and Human Resources provided the grant to the state Department of Education to purchase new Xbox 360 Kinect systems, said Melanie [...]
Continue reading...Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Releases Carmen Sandiego Adventures in Math Educational App for Windows 8
Saturday, March 3, 2012
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Global education leader Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) today launched Carmen Sandiego Adventures in Math, the world’s first series of education apps designed with all new features exclusively for Microsoft Corp.’s Windows 8 operating system. via Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Releases Carmen Sandiego Adventures in Math Educational App for Windows 8 – Business Wire – SunHerald.com.
Continue reading...CU nets grant for video-game research
Friday, February 17, 2012
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Researchers at the University of Colorado have received a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to continue video-game design research. via CU nets grant for video-game research | Boulder County Business Report.
Continue reading...iCivics
Friday, July 15, 2011
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A collection of online games that teaches the fundamentals of government and law and encourages young people to become active in our democracy. iCivics is the vision of Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and is created by a team of distinguished game scholars, designers, and curriculum specialists. In Do I Have A Right?, students [...]
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