Serious Games

Can you learn to save the world by playing games?

August 31, 2010

[tweetmeme] Somewhere along the way I began to write less about games here on Mission to Learn, but my interest in them as an approach to learning has never faded, and after seeing the Jane McGonigal video below it has multiplied many times over.

McGonigal begins with the startling – and no doubt disturbing to some [...]

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12 More Learning Games for Change – and a Bonus

September 24, 2009

It’s been far too long since my last round-up of learning games, but I have been squirreling away quite a few. Here’s a list of 12, with a bonus thrown in at the end. Most of these have to do with environmental issues, but there are also some that address the digital divide, microfinance, and [...]

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Learning Games: Energy, Floods, and Social Reality

April 14, 2009

It’s been a while since I posted about learning games. Here are three serious, educational games that have come onto my radar screen lately:
Akoha
Described as “the world’s first social reality game,” Akoha awards players points for completing real-world “missions” that are distributed via decks of cards that players purchase from Akoha for $5 per deck. [...]

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Gaming the Budget

March 19, 2009

A couple of new serious games related to government budgets have popped onto my radar screen recently.
The first is Budget Hero from American Public Media, which sets its sites on the U.S. budget. “If you ever wanted to control where your tax dollars go, here’s your chance to decide,” is the game’s tag line. Here’s [...]

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