educational games

This note last modified September 1, 2024

So first off, I like the term transformational game better.

But regardless, educational games are great. I’m not talking about frog fractions (and honestly, a lot of research shows that those kinds of games are ineffective anyways), but things more along the lines of explorables.

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transformational games
- Transformational games are an umbrella term for serious games, educational games, Games with a purpose, explorables, etc.
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- edugames don't fit well into the classroom structure and so teachers are loathe to completely revamp their curriculum to support an edugame study. This means that proper studies on edugames are hard to find.
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- I study educational games, with a focus on games that ask their players to reflect — touching on concepts in social issues, critical thinking, and philosophy. I got started in undergrad, where I taught a course that used games to teach philosophy.
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