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JUNE 27, 2025

That’s where game-based learning comes in. Meanwhile, video games are already one of the most familiar and compelling forms of media for students–so why not use them as a learning platform? When done right, it can radically change how students learn and retain essential skills. That fuels teamwork.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2019

I have to do a lot of the same strategic thinking that I enjoyed doing in that game.” He also ponders whether games can both teach and measure 21st-century skills, considers the barriers to a broader use of GBL in schools and discusses the not-so-mysterious motivational power of Pokemon. “Now I run a 40-person ‘empire’ at Filament.

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JANUARY 6, 2025

In a TEDx talk titled The Super Mario Effect–Tricking Your Brain into Learning More , Mark Rober highlighted how video games like Super Mario can motivate people to achieve their goals by viewing failures as learning opportunities. Many educational games fall into this category.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2018

With over 20 years classroom experience, Tricia is all about “putting the STEAM back in STEM.” Innovations in Games-Based Learning video series. They are excited by new possibilities, and learn from their failures. I’m the gamification guy,' come talk to me. More information on UNC MEITE. UNC MEITE website.

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JUNE 18, 2018

But we can use the cultural relevance of games to blend their physical and virtual learning opportunities in ways that will empower students. Games Make Us More Social Companies like Google are finding that SEL skills are more important to students’ success than the mastery of STEM subjects alone.

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OCTOBER 23, 2019

You can hear dialogue, you get this sort of in-game notebook where you're gathering vocabulary.” But even the apparently straightforward STEM activities such as chemistry are complex, under the hood. 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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