This month I had the pleasure of working with Andy Robertson, who founded and runs the amazing Family Video Game Database, to highlight a collection of video games that can develop a deep sense of civic identity. If you are new to FVGD, you have to go check it out....
Madlyn Larson has worked at the Natural History Museum of Utah leading Research Quest for over a decade. Research Quest leverages the Museum’s collections and their research for science learning in middle school classrooms. I began working with Madlyn last fall,...
Perhaps nothing creates more anxiety for adults than imagining what their teens are up to when no one is watching. That’s why my ears perked up when I read this quote in a New York Times interview with Richard Tyler Blevins, known as Ninja, an American Twitch...
“We used to love playing Xbox all day. That used to be great. But now that it’s all we really do or have to do, they’re always like, ‘Oh, I’m so bored of Xbox. I just wanna do something else.’” (Boy, Age 17 / Pasco County, Florida) Last year the Joan Ganz Cooney...
In the past year have you done… anything? Given the twin pandemics of Covid-19 and systemic racism, if you’re even just still here to read this I KNOW you deserve an award. But if you ALSO created a learning game for a museum, or a library, or for any other informal...
Yesterday, I spent an hour with five African-American and Latinx boys from West Harlem. All gamers. Over Zoom, we chatted about the role games played in their lives, how it helps them to be who they want to be in the world, and how my client (a local university) might...
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