Tag Archives: digital games
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Jesse Schell: The Future of Digital Play
May 21, 2020
For the fourth part of this series, we asked experts to focus their predictions on digital play by answering the question, “How will the way children play with digital media change in the coming months and/or years as a result of the coronavirus pandemic?” Parents and kids will learn to play together Jesse Schell is […]
Connecting Across Worlds: How Empathy and Play Can Support Connection
March 12, 2018
How do we live together in a connected world? How do we cultivate “global citizens” who can relate to others—across international borders and Internet forums, or political aisles and bus aisles? These are increasingly pressing questions, and ones that are considered by two recent publications: The Joan Ganz Cooney Center’s Digital Play for Global Citizens, […]
Families and Pokémon GO
March 28, 2017
On July 6, 2016, Niantic, Inc. released Pokémon GO, which quickly became one of the most popular mobile game apps in history. In this location-based mobile game, players use the GPS capabilities of their smartphones or tablets to navigate an avatar within a virtual world that is overlaid on top of the real world. As players move […]
Using Games as Primary Sources and Primary Sources as Games
August 17, 2016
Imagine you were playing a game of Trivial Pursuit and this was your question: What institution has the largest collection of primary sources in the world, a board game on human morality, and now a video game expert? Answer: The Library of Congress Trivial Pursuit was just one of the games featured in our August 1, 2016 National STEM Video Game […]
Parents! Please Take Our Survey About Games and Family Life
February 2, 2016
Busting Barriers Or Just Dabbling?: How Teachers Are Using Digital Games In K-8 Classrooms
I spent last weekend on a camping trip with extended family. Having just completed a report on the use of digital games in the classroom, I was more than a little eager to consult with the kids in the group about their use of digital games inside and outside of the classroom. Given the popularity […]
Introducing gamesandlearning.org
February 5, 2014
Ever since the Joan Ganz Cooney Center opened its doors in 2007, we’ve met a lot of great developers who are producing games for kids. And one piece of advice that they are all looking for is how to get their products funded and distributed as widely as possible– whether the K-12 institutional system, or […]
Digital Games: A Context for Cognitive Development
April 9, 2013
Executive Director Michael Levine and former Cooney Center fellow Sarah Vaala have co-authored Games for Learning: Vast Wasteland or a Digital Promise?, the conclusion to the new anthology Digital Games: A Context for Cognitive Development, edited by Fran C. Blumberg and Shalom M. Fisch. The volume takes a broad look at the many positive impacts […]
Games & The Common Core: Two Movements That Need Each Other
March 19, 2013
Recently in one day, I witnessed two expert panels discussing critical issues for our educational system: the first one was on implementing the Common Core for English-language learners, the second was on how games offer an exciting new frontier for student learning and engagement. In the morning, I listened in to an Alliance for Excellent […]
More than Fun and Games at the NSVF Summit
May 10, 2012
“Radical change” and “storm the Bastille” were the rallying cries of the inspirational opening keynote of the 2nd Annual New School Venture Fund Summit, held on May 2, 2012 in San Francisco, CA. This invite-only conference attracts big names from the education reform movement, including: school chancellors from Newark and Washington DC, representatives from the US […]