For additional reading on the topic of gaming in education, consider:
- "How Social Gaming is Improving Education" (Mashable, 2010) takes a cursory look at educational gaming and how it can create a fun and engaging learning environment.
- The curated topic are you game gathers some great reading material on the topic game based learning.
- "From Age of Empires to Zork: Using Games in the Classroom" (Academic Commons, 2008)
- Educational Games Research blog surveys the current research in educational gaming, providing suggestions for implementation and commentary.
- Microsoft's Games for Learning Institute supports research in educational gaming. The site includes links to math and science games, as well as research supporting the use of games in learning.
- "Penn State’s Educational Gaming Commons is a group devoted to to exploration of games as a tool to improve teaching, learning and research." There a 8 games available for use. Some require a Penn State login, but the game descriptions may inspire you to create a small scale game for your classroom. One that is accessible without Penn State credentials is Chemblaster, a game that will help students recall core chemistry concepts.
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