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Visualize Education with Gamification
For the visual learners out there, the Knewton Blog has created an info-graphic to visualize the gamificaiton of education. People love to play games: they offer role-playing opportunities,...
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8 Ways Technology is Improving Education
David Williamson Shaffer always says that the biggest Star Trek travesty is not that you can’t download them for free, but that 300 years in the future we are still imagining school the way we looked...
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How Virtual Mentoring is like Piloting a Fighter Plane
In epistemic games much of the teaching and mentoring happens in a remote location away from the players. Mentors must respond to players’ questions and issues from virtual communication in the game....
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Land Science will have another run this semester. Ten high school students in Massachusetts will be spending their April vacation week at Mass Audubon playing Land Science starting April 17th. It’s...
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David Williamson Shaffer Presents “The University of Play” at the Partners in...
David Williamson Shaffer has been invited to speak at the Microsoft Education France: Partners in Learning Conference on Monday, April16th in Lyon, France. This conference gathers hundreds of the...
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Padraig Nash lecture on distributed mentorship
Padraig Nash recently presented an EdLab Seminar titled “Distributed Mentoring: Scaffolding Learning in Educational Video Games” where he discussed his research and findings about the concept of...
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Epistemic Games
What are Epistemic Games? Epistemic games are computer games that help players learn to think like engineers, urban planners, journalists, lawyers, and other innovative professionals through...
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Video games can offer so much more than just mindlessness
Our society tends to carry a number of negative stereotypes when it comes to video games, including the idea that violent games increase aggression in the people who regularly play them, which was...
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Shaffer delivers keynote address at IAEA 2012 conference
Epistemic Games’s chief investigator, David Williamson Shaffer was in Kazakhstan earlier this week to deliver the keynote address at the International Association for Educational Assessment (IAEA) 2012...
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Audio: “Is Testing Knowledge Alone Not enough?”
Boston Globe ideas reporter Leon Neyfakh appeared on WBUR (Boston’s NPR station) recently to discuss alternative ways of assessment and testing and mentioned the work that David Williamson Shaffer and...
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