{"id":7255,"date":"2014-12-22T03:45:53","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T11:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/?p=7255"},"modified":"2014-12-18T09:23:03","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T17:23:03","slug":"guide-to-digital-games-and-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/guide-to-digital-games-and-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Guide to Digital Games and Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KQED\u2019s learning and education technology blog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqed.org\/mindshift\">MindShift<\/a> has long been one of our go-to sources for news about the future of learning.<\/p>\n<p>MindShift recently released the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/mindshift\/series\/guide-to-games-and-learning\/\">Guide to Digital Games and Learning<\/a> \u2013 a comprehensive resource that answers many of the most pressing questions that educators, parents and others have raised around using digital games for learning.<\/p>\n<p>How do games and technology affect learners of all ages?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>How are educators using games, and where do they find support?<\/li>\n<li>What types of games are available and how do you choose?<\/li>\n<li>What are the obstacles to using games in the classroom, and how have educators addressed them?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With up-to-date research and detailed case studies, the guide outlines a process that educators can follow to choose the best educational games and use them in the classroom effectively.<\/p>\n<p>The MindShift Guide to Digital Games and Learning began as a series of blog posts written by Jordan Shapiro with the support of the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop and the Games and Learning Publishing Council.<\/p>\n<p>With a new introduction written by Institute of Play founder Katie Salen Tekinbas, it brings together the most relevant highlights of Shapiro\u2019s and MindShift\u2019s reporting to create a dynamic, in-depth guide that makes sense of the available research and provides suggestions for practical use.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/mindshift\/series\/guide-to-games-and-learning\/\">Read more and download<\/a> the free guide (PDF) on MindShift.<\/p>\n<p><em>By Ilena Parker<br \/>\nOriginal Post\/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instituteofplay.org\/2014\/11\/new-mindshift-guide-to-digital-games-and-learning\/\">Institute of Play<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KQED\u2019s learning and education technology blog MindShift has long been one of our go-to sources for news about the future of learning. MindShift recently released the Guide to Digital Games and Learning \u2013 a comprehensive resource that answers many of the most pressing questions that educators, parents and others have raised around using digital games [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":7256,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,33,36,11],"tags":[416,228,229,369,415],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7255"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7265,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7255\/revisions\/7265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}