Game. Play. Learn! Show

Our new episode has a segment on using the Sims 4 for learning about human behavior, social and economic systems, and design; a segment about using Valiant Hearts to learn about WW1; a manifesto on the future of learning; a segment on using Democracy 3 to learn the workings of politics and policy implementation; plus, I summarized all the great news, events, job postings of the past 3 months in the field of games and learning. Sources and more: www.gameplaylearn.com

In this episode, we did a ton of game reviews: we review two terrific learning games by Israeli companies (one teaching geometry and another teaching Spanish), we review Elegy for a Dead World (a creative writing game) and Influent (a vocabulary game), we review Never Alone, Plague Inc, and This War of Mine. We update you on the latest happenings in virtual reality conferences in regards to education + updates from the Games for Change Festival and GLS. We end the episode talking about city builders to analyze urban issues + an insightful YouTube series on female characters in games + our new Twitter-based segment, where we let you know all the important information on serious games reported on Twitter (jobs, events, scholarships, announcements, you name it). Thanks for joining us!

In this episode, we talk about videogames that will teach you how to strengthen your brain and your vagina; a simulation that puts you in the shoes of a Syrian war refugee; we'll talk about Riot Games' new 30-person psychology research lab; a dating simulator featuring characters with disabilities; the wonderful research of Digital Media and Learning scholar Crystle Martin on all the learning happening on pro wrestling/WWE forums; virtual reality tools to teach better driving and foreign languages, and much more! We end with our Game of the Month(s), Gone Home, and we review curriculum used to teach the game in schools.

In this episode, we talk about games to teach sexual education, a Disney incubator for educational games startups, grants that you can apply for from the U.S government if you are creating educational games, a UN app competition to build a peace-promoting app, how virtual reality can revolutionize learning and last but not least, games to analyze history plus our game of the month, which is an interactive story about the Yellow Fever epidemic in 18th century Philadelphia. Thanksfor listening!

This episode will cover highlights from major serious games conferences in North and South America and Europe; the rising popularity of eSports and virtual worlds; a robot created at Georgia Tech that teaches kids how to play Angry Birds; learning history thru interactive fiction; plus a few other stories. Our game of the month is the latest version of SimCity. Thanks a million for listening!

This episode’s stories include: games that use crowdsourcing for great good; new projects from the Center for Games & Impact at Arizona State; a list of the best reviewed educational games and apps of the past year; a few weird games with education potential showcased at GDC; learning thru fandoms; and a start-up accelerator focused on educational gaming. We end this episode with our game of the month, a meditation game created by Deepak Chopra and NYU’s Eric Zimmerman. Thanks for listening!

This month we have many many stories: an expansion of iCivics; a new serious game to overcome cognitive bias; a game that teaches yoga to individuals with blindness; virtual reality hardware and software for education; an alternative reality history game that teaches Jewish life and New York City politics. We will also talk about educational games events that just past and the ones that are coming up, like the Games for Change Festival this April. Our game of the month is the literary marvel Device 6. We end the podcast with the latest job postings in the field. Thanks for listening!

This month our stories include the Red Cross call to arms for realism in warlike video games, gamers doing good by participating in the extra life marathon, the promising debut of a new game from the MIT education arcade and much more. Our Games of the Month are the border control thriller Papers, Please and the mass media/press censorship themed Republia Times.