While video games have become a source of excitement for educational designers, creating
informal game experiences that players can draw on when thinking and reasoning in non …

Video games designed for educational purposes often struggle to effectively connect
concepts of interest to gameplay. We propose that to encourage players to mobilize …

In this article we propose that educational game design should work to create games as
objects-to-think-with—games that engage players in the exploration of and experimentation …

Video games offer an exciting opportunity for learners to engage in computational thinking in
informal contexts. This paper describes a genre of learning environments called …

Science is critically important for advancing economics, health, and social well-being in the
twenty-first century. A scientifically literate workforce is one that is well-suited to meet the …

Well-designed digital games are exceptionally successful at helping learners to build
accurate intuitive understandings of the concepts and processes at the heart of those games …

Interactive immersive entertainment, or videogame playing, has emerged as a major
entertainment and educational medium. As research and development initiatives proliferate …

Building on the education community's longstanding interest in videogames for learning,
and in response to continued calls for more engaging pedagogy in history classrooms, some …

For some years now, the scientific community has been studying how videogames foster
acquisition of mental representations of the world around us. Research to date suggests that …

Schools appear to be facing a crisis of engaging secondary students in meaningful learning.
Many are recognizing that the learning principles embodied in computer and video games …