Principles for designing educational games that integrate content and play and create learning experiences connecting to many areas of learners' lives.Too often educational videogames are narrowly focused on specific learning outcomes dictated by school curricula and fail to engage young learners. This book suggests another approach, offering a guide to designing games that integrates content and play and creates learning experiences that connect to many areas of l...

The rise and fall of iCue: lessons about new media, old media, and education from an NBC-MIT joint venture into interactive learning.In 2006, young people were flocking to MySpace, discovering the joys of watching videos of cute animals on YouTube, and playing online games. Not many of them were watching network news on television; they got most of their information online. So when NBC and MIT launched iCue, an interactive learning venture that combined social netw...