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Empatico

Empatico, an initiative of The KIND Foundation, is in the early stages of creating a free tool for teachers to connect their students to classrooms around the world using seamless video conferencing technology. Activities are standards-based and designed to promote meaningful interactions and positive perceptions. As students learn together, they explore their similarities and differences with curiosity and kindness and develop practical communication and leadership skills.

The Game Jam Guide

How can designing games about real world issues teach students empathy, systems thinking, and design thinking? This curriculum guide shares lesson plans and ideas for educators to implement created by experts who lead game jams themed on topics such as climate change, immigration stories and local voices, and future cities

unity.com

Students and teachers can use this website to create their own games for the classroom and learning.

TECH & LEARNING

Here is a complied list of the top 100 games that can be used in game-based learning.

Starting Point

This website teaches teachers how to create effective games for their classrooms.

A Recipe for Meaningful Gamification

“Meaningful gamification is the use of gameful and playful layers to help a user find personal connections that motivate engagement with a specific context for long-term change.” Scott Nicholson has written an article that fully explains gamification and its significance in the classroom.

Q Games & Learning Design Pack

Here is a game design resource that is base on the Quest Schools’ model of game-based learning.

Power My Learning

Students, parents, and educators can use this website to learn while using activities and games.

New Media Institute

NMI is a research institute and they explain why game-based learning is important as well as how it affects the future of the classroom.

Ndemic Creations

Ndemic Creations is a leading, independent game studio dedicated to making ultra high quality, intelligent and sophisticated strategy games.

multiplication.com

Games for learning multiplication!

MindShift

The MindShift Guide to Digital Games and Learning helps to explain the key ideas in game based learning, which include the “pedagogy, implementation, and assessment.”