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Why Cognitive Satiety is the New Goal for EdTech

The dopamine extraction schemes behind many popular digital products are often blamed for shrinking attention spans, especially in environments filled with constant notifications and competing stimuli. I myself have been distracted from completing this article in no less than five totally disparate ways since starting to write it. Based in part on hope for a…

Building Data Literacy Through Game-Based Agency

Data literacy is a non-negotiable competency for the modern workforce. While our recent update on artificial intelligence and education explored how learners prompt generative models, it’s equally important to address the foundational skills required to evaluate their work. As luck would have it, game-based learning delivers the exact mechanisms needed to build true data fluency.…

What’s New in Game-based Learning – February 2026

Much like game-based learning itself, we’re expanding our focus across multiple sectors this month. Across highly various delivery formats, we’re seeing games used to support early literacy, university learning, executive decision-making, and long-horizon policy planning. This month’s examples focus less on novelty and more on function, highlighting how well-designed games make thinking visible, practice repeatable,…

The Latest Findings in AI and Learning – December 2025

The cold chill of winter is here, and I just looked outside through frosted windowpanes, and it appears that the AI bubble (?) remains unpopped, and indeed, bubbling. Google has upended the competitive landscape with the release of Gemini 3, precipitating some strategic reorientations from the incumbent leader. Meanwhile, DeepSeek is quietly dropping competitive models…

What’s New in Game-Based Learning – December 2025

Game-based learning showed its range this month. Several stories focused on how interactive systems support people during moments of strain, whether that strain comes from workplace pressure, academic uncertainty, or the slow work of physical recovery. Other developments are looking to celebrate and foster the creative momentum that emerges when young designers have the right…

Games That Teach Focus in a Distracted World

In an age of constant notifications and phone chimes and group chats and Slack notifications and Discord pings and emails and spam texts, many assume that digital games shorten attention spans along with the rest of the neverending digital melee. The reality is more nuanced! When designed correctly, certain types of games can actually strengthen…

Digital Business Simulation Games: Trends and Classroom Use Cases

Studies show that learners who engage with business simulations retain knowledge longer and make better strategic decisions than peers in traditional lecture formats. Instructors have known for years that giving students a sandbox for experimentation beats static theory, and digital business simulation games take that principle to scale. These tools create miniature economies where every…

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