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Exploring the Future of Digital Curriculum with Explorabl.es

Remember Arne Duncan? I do. He was the Education Secretary under the Obama administration, and in 2012 he (somewhat controversially) declared that “Over the next few years, textbooks should be obsolete.” From our 2018 vantage point, this statement seems a little silly. Textbooks are still relevant to today’s schools, but I can sympathize with the…

February 28, 2018 // Brandon Pittser

Filament Games | Educational Game Developer

Project Round-up: Math Games by Filament Games

With more than 200 games shipped in the past 16 years, it’s safe to say that Filament Games has done it all when it comes to educational game development. Our promise to our clients is any age, any subject, any platform – no matter what you’re trying to teach and where you’re trying to teach…

August 4, 2021 // Brandon Pittser

Video Games as Therapy

Last time we checked in on the expanding and dynamic intersection of video games and healthcare, we explored whether video games can help treat COVID-19 brain fog, an excellent example of the ways in which the proliferation of medical applications for video games is being driven by the emergent needs of our world. Today we’re…

July 28, 2021 // Brandon Pittser

Boost Your Career with Video Games

What do a passion for video games and a successful career have in common? A recent study conducted by OnePoll on behalf of World of Warships by Wargaming asked approximately 2,000 American adults to answer this very question, assessing the impact that video games had on their professional lives. If you’re short on time, you…

July 26, 2021 // Brandon Pittser

What’s New in Game-based Learning – July 2021

Hello friends! Time to jam out to our latest roundup of the month’s hottest educational gaming, serious games, and AR/VR for learning news! (Image Source: Giphy) Be sure to let us know on Facebook or Twitter if we missed any noteworthy articles or announcements. Here’s what’s goin’ on: Nintendo Partners with the National Summer Learning…

July 7, 2021 // Brandon Pittser

The Rise of Digital Distance Learning

As the pandemic recedes (sort of, in some places) and our lives resume a semblance of normalcy, a quick survey of the educational landscape shows that digital distance learning is having a moment. New approaches to the classroom, massive funding rounds for the latest modular courseware startups, video-first curricula that emphasize self-guided learning – the…

June 30, 2021 // Brandon Pittser

Inside RoboCo: Episodes #1-3

If you’re a regular reader of our blog, you know that we’ve been working on a game called RoboCo – a digital robotics sandbox for PC and VR. Though we’ve been underway for several years thanks to a grant from the National Science Foundation, RoboCo continues to evolve through our ongoing development efforts, and through…

June 28, 2021 // Brandon Pittser

RoboCo Game screenshot of a forklift robot

Educational Indie Games 2021 Round-up

Three thousand and thirty one. 3,031! That’s how many games have come out on Steam since the start of this year. In 2020, Steam launched a whopping 10,263 games – the most games released in one year on the platform, ever. Trying to find a new game to play from this staggering onslaught of content…

June 23, 2021 // Brandon Pittser

Get “Outside” with Natural Science Learning Games

With a recent rash of intense storms, a gnarly nationwide heat wave, and swarms of 17 year cicadas that not even the secret service can handle, times are tough for nature lovers out there. In fact just this morning my colleague Dan White told me a grim tale of his weekend campsite encounter with scores…

June 21, 2021 // Brandon Pittser

Major League Hacking

A few weeks ago, I had the privilege of serving as a judge for MadHacks, the Madison, WI chapter of Major League Hacking (MLH). MLH bills itself as the official student hackathon league, and rightly so! This event was serious business. MLH works with thousands of students on an annual basis, holding over 200 weekend-long invention…

March 20, 2017 // Brandon Pittser