May 16, 2014
In the last of her reports on the development of the Possible Worlds games, Katherine Culp explains why they decided that these games would not be built to assess student performance — on why they wanted to create games that kids could play rather than requiring and testing for learning.
May 14, 2014
In part two of her series, Possible World’s Katherine McMillan Culp offers some insight into how teachers use digital games and why the way they use them should factor in how games are designed.
May 12, 2014
This week we begin a three-part series from the folks behind Possible Worlds, a digital game initiative aimed at improving middle school students’s understanding of science. In part one the project’s principal investigator examines the core ideas that drove their development process.
May 7, 2014
Often in the U.S., technology is seen as allowing students to learn at their own rate. The Hechinger Report examines how technology is being used to speed all students up and encourage collaboration.