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Gaming the System: The Many Educational Benefits of Game-Based Learning
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Game-based learning may take various forms—purposeful play in the classroom, game-like approaches to curriculum design, even school-sponsored esports competitions. Whatever it looks like on the surface, introducing games to the educational arena has the power to create deep connections to the classroom and forge learning habits that endure throughout one's life.
In the stories featured below, we explore how game-based pedagogy has taken shape in schools over the past half-century and what impact games may have on the future of learning.
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A History Lesson
The Practicality of Play
Leveling Up Life Skills
A History Lesson
This three-part series examines the development of the 'edutainment' movement, tracking the broad impact of an iconic learning game.
Game-Based Learning
Technology Trends
Student Engagement
Teaching and Learning
Reflections on 50 years of Game-Based Learning (Part 1)
Alan Gershenfeld
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Reflections on 50 years of Game-Based Learning (Part 2)
Reflections on 50 years of Game-Based Learning (Part 3)
The Practicality of Play
We hear from education professionals about what makes games an ideal medium for engaging students in a lifelong learning process.
Leveling Up Life Skills
School-based practitioners share how gaming and game-like learning provide unique opportunities for student engagement—in the classroom and beyond.
