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Start the Journey
When starting to write, it doesn’t matter if you haven’t perfected character, setting, plot or outcome. What matters is you start the journey. […]
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Review
Review – Luma World Games
Luma World’s approach to learning through play aligns with modern educational theories emphasing active engagement, problem-solving, and hands-on experiences.
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Role-play-based education
Role-playing leads to a change of perspective: We take on a specific point of view and become more sensitive and empathetic as a result. […]
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How to Help Your Child Fall In Love With Learning
Learning done well is more like play than ‘work’. There are many games which can help to instill learning skills, as you and your family enjoy time together. […]
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Play, Learn, Speak: How Games Transform Language Learning
Language learning is big business. Games-based learning and gamification have emerged as powerful tools to engage learners and enhance language acquisition […]
Show & Tell
Luna Uni – An RPG for Mastering Writing
Luna Uni offers more than just writing. As we discover during this chat, it also unlocks Social and Emotional Learning, Critical Thinking and much more. […]
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Social & Emotional Learning (SEL) with Tomo Club
Games are an effective way to cultivate SEL (social-emotional learning) skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, and communication. […]
LindaInfo
Practical Methodology for the Design of Educational Serious Games – Part 2
All the main steps that are needed to define the learning mechanisms in an educational serious game, from topic choice to use experience. […]
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Practical Methodology for the Design of Educational Serious Games – Part I
All the main steps that are needed to define the learning mechanisms in an educational serious game, from topic choice to use experience. […]
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Five Ways to Keep Kids Learning in the Holidays
The key, according to many experts is to allow self-directed activity – and not to act as some kind of entertainments manager for your kids. […]
Ideas
Water Closets and the Gamification of Learning
The WC tells us that excrement is waste, for which the solution is disposal. The way many adults view Play shares characteristics of the water closet mindset. […]
learning topics
Combining Maths, Physics, Videogames and Storytelling in RENOVATIO QUEST
As a high school teacher, I’ve always wondered what to do to make math and physics exercises more appealing for students. Can a 2D RPG help? […]
Review
Review – A Book About How We Learn From Failure
One of this book’s greatest strengths, is that it focuses on one aspect of play in learning, and gives space and time to be really thorough in exploring it. […]
Ideas
Games, Business and Changing Times
Employers are clamoring for answers to an aging and dwindling workforce that is demanding a caring, flexible and sustainable work environment […]
design process
Taking time to get it right – even if it’s three years
There is no doubt that 2020 was a challenging year for many, and for young people in particular. It impacted their learning, both academic and emotional. […]