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Simulation game helps students understand traumatic brain injury
11/07/2014
Topics: Gamification, Gaming, Standards
From a tackle in a football game to a fall on an icy sidewalk or a car accident, the dangers of traumatic brain injury are real and sometimes even fatal. To help educate students about traumatic brain injury and heighten their awareness and ability to make informed decisions,…
Minecraft 101: The Underwater Dome Project
09/15/2014
Topics: Gaming
At Punahou School in Honolulu, Hawaii, where I teach high school computer science, I gave my students an assignment to play Minecraft together, hoping it would…
What is the future of gaming in education?
07/01/2014
Topics: Gamification, Gaming, STEM & STEAM
After asking around the ISTE 2014 conference floor, I discovered some great predictions and big dreams for the future of digital gaming and virtual environments in learning.
Educators discussed the potential of wearable technology with excitement. Improved efficiency and access to…
Student hacking: Awesome or awful? Awesome
06/09/2014
Topics: Coding & robotics, Computational Thinking, Digital Citizenship, Education leadership, Gaming, Robotics
While hackers appear frequently in the news and other media as criminals who steal vast amounts of data ranging from email passwords to Social…
Teach kids to find the math in video games
10/22/2013
Topics: Gaming, STEM & STEAM
Imagine: Students take turns bowling a frame on the Nintendo Wii. The teacher then asks how the score can be represented as a fraction. As a class, they discuss what each digit in the fraction represents and reach the conclusion that the numerator represents the number of pins knocked down…