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JUNE 16, 2025

Chris Gethard, a veteran comedian and improv teacher, posed this question to a group of high school students in Northern California at a Laughing Together workshop he was leading. Markus Alcantar, a senior and a peer counselor at Lincoln High School, said his favorite exercise of the workshop was one in which he got to become an apple.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2022

But she doesn't want that to be how kids experience school going forward. And that desire for change drew Vallon to Quest to Learn , a public 6-12 school in New York City focused on game-based learning. I feel like this is what I needed when I was a kid going to school," explains Vallon.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2019

A project of the Institute of Play, Quest, as the school is known, is an Innovation Zone (or iZone) school, itself a project of the city’s public school system. Additionally, Arum has said that the school is adept at building soft skills, such as design thinking, along with collaboration and critical thinking.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Job titles in this category might include Chief Executive Officer of an edtech startup or Entrepreneur-in-residence at a high school. Innovations in Games-Based Learning video series. They are excited by new possibilities, and learn from their failures. More information on UNC MEITE. Facebook events.

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JUNE 18, 2018

Another study concluded that children in elementary school who played five or more hours of games a week performed better socially and academically than peers who did not. Games Make It OK to Fail Failure is a normal part of learning. Games are a compelling force, one that’s creating a positive culture.

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OCTOBER 23, 2019

Adjacent to displays and videos about Minecraft merchandise and the game’s place in popular culture is a section devoted to how Minecraft has been used as a tool for real-world change. Everybody who gets into Minecraft, it’s basically constant failure,” Peck said, “as you’re learning how it all works and how to do it.”

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