February 2012
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Game Based Learning vs. Gamification
Videogame culture is increasingly becoming a vital part of the 21st century classroom, and with it have arrived two increasingly popular terms: game based learning and gamification.
In one classroom, a teacher uses the videogame Civilization III to teach their students about the development of Chinese history. Students play the game and come to understand what advantages China’s...
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Spongelab wins international award!
Last week Spongelab got the fantastic news that we were selected for an Honourary Mention in the National Science Foundation’s Visualization Challenge 2011. Build-a-Body, our interactive anatomy game, took the award for its awesome, virtual educational experience and was hailed by Science Journal as “more like a lab project than a video game.”
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January 2012
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Apple’s education initiative and why it matters to...
Apple announced yesterday their game-changing plans to “reinvent the textbook” at a special event at the Guggenheim museum in New York City. The museum, a landmark of contemporary style and cultural locus for the arts, was a smart choice of venue as it keenly reflected the event’s hosts - a company that prides itself on existing at the “intersection of the liberal arts and technology”, as Steve...