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Meet the National STEM Video Game Challenge Winners: Angel Acevedo-Martinez

by Meagan Bromley
November 26, 2013

One morning last summer in DeRidder, Louisiana, Angel Acevedo-Martinez’s father came into his room and woke him up with exciting news. Angel’s 6th grade math teacher, Miss Sanchez was on

Being a Toca Builder: Creating Construction Play on Touchscreen Devices

by Björn Jeffery
November 7, 2013

Since the beginning of Toca Boca, we’ve always tried to invent new ways of playing with screens. Some come very naturally—like creative play—where the touchscreen device gives kids super powers

Going to Austin: Cooney Center Panel Selected for SXSWedu

by Lee Banville
October 15, 2013

Today brought some good news as one of our proposed panels was selected as part of the SXSWedu conference slated for next March. The session, “Lost in Translation: Applying the

(De)constructing Learning with Toontastic & MinecraftEdu

by Andy Russell
October 8, 2013

Educational psychology has long recognized the impact of informal learning in child development. In fact, most educators and psychologists believe that young students learn more from other kids with shared

Achieving Cognitive Balance

by Annie Murphy Paul
July 25, 2013

Girls should play more video games. That’s one of the unexpected lessons I take away from a rash of recent studies on the importance of—and the malleability of—spatial skills. First,

Video: Dr. Constance Steinkuehler on Interest Driven Learning

by Administrator
April 30, 2013

In this video, Dr. Constance Steinkuehler talks about her research on video games and literacy, and how learning skyrockets when students are passionate about the subject matter. Dr. Steinkuehler

iPads – A Tool, Not Alchemy, for Education

by Björn Jeffery
April 25, 2013

The topic of kids and technology is a hot topic again. This would normally be a good thing, if the questions that are being discussed weren’t fundamentally the wrong ones.

Games for Change

by Allison Mishkin
April 10, 2013

The Games for Change Festival is the largest gaming event in New York City and the leading international event uniting “games for change” creators with those interested in accessing the

Games & The Common Core: Two Movements That Need Each Other

by Milton Chen
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

The Pedagogical Promise of Transmedia Play

by Rebecca Herr-Stephenson, Ph.D, by Meryl Alper
March 18, 2013

Today we are thrilled to release a new report, T is for Transmedia: Learning through Transmedia Play. This report, which we have co-authored along with Erin Reilly, and which begins

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