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The Resource Round-up Round-up: Exploring the Best of 2024

// Brandon Pittser

As the year winds down, we’re reflecting on the wide array of topics we’ve covered on the blog in 2024. From advances in artificial intelligence to the growing impact of scholastic esports, this has been a year of innovation, exploration, and transformation in game-based learning and educational technology. This resource roundup gathers all the resource-roundups…

5 More Reasons Why We Love Game-based Learning

// Alyssa Froehling

Yesterday was Valentine’s Day, Filamentarians, and we’re feeling sentimental. Why? Because we love game-based learning. So much so, we couldn’t help ourselves but write five more reasons why game-based learning is the best!  via Giphy We want to know: why do you love game-based learning? Let us know your answer on Facebook or Twitter. If…

Game Your Way to a Career: Organizers

// Alyssa Froehling

Do you want to know how you can go from a gamer to a community or team leader? Welcome to the second installment of “Game Your Way to a Career,” a blog series where we share how video games allow players to grow their future-facing skills, and how these skills transfer into different career paths!…

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A-Games Study: How Teachers Use Digital Learning Games

// Kat Shanahan

Game-based learning is rich with opportunities that enhance the student experience while helping teachers solve classroom challenges. A recent study by the A-Games project (Analyzing Games for Assessment in Math, ELA/ Social Studies, and Science) shed light on game usage in the classroom – including how teachers are using games as formative assessment tools. More than…

5 Excellent Digital Games for Teaching Empathy

// Brandon Pittser

Like most human-made scenarios, the K-12 classroom is a high-stakes environment for social development. As we’ve often said, game-based learning excels in certain key areas, and the ability to simulate high-stakes situations is one of those superpowers. Digital games offer an exceptional sandbox for students to practice critical interpersonal skills like empathy and conflict resolution…

The Latest Findings in AI and Learning – April 2026

// Brandon Pittser

Our March roundup focused on clarity, and with that clarity in hand, April is showing us where the lines start getting drawn. Educators are defining when AI belongs in the learning process and when it gets in the way. Researchers are building new ways to measure what students retain after using it. Institutions are making…

The Latest Findings in AI and Learning – March 2026

// Brandon Pittser

Welcome in everyone, it’s time for another monthly roundup of the latest developments in the grand, society-wide technological experiment we call artificial intelligence. This is always an interesting round up to generate because we write them retrospectively for the preceding month, which gives us a chance to try and synthesize the theme of that month…

The Latest Findings on AI and Learning – November 2025

// Brandon Pittser

As usual, this month finds AI in an interesting place. Speculation about bubbles and when they might burst is everywhere you look, so much so that some of the top leaders in AI are feeling obliged to address the topic directly. (Same here, actually.) It remains to be seen whether we are in the throes…

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