This page contains many of the resources that I have used over the years to support my research and exploration in the area of games and learning.

Books and Journal Articles

• The Art of Game Design - Jesse Schell

• Changing the Game: What Happens When Video Games Enter the Classroom. Squire, K.

• Collaborative Games: Lessons Learned from Board Games. Zagal, P., J. Rick, and I. His.

• Collaborative Strategic Board Games as a Site for Distributed Computational Thinking - Matthew Berland

• Computational Discourse in a Role-Playing Game Podcast - Gabai, J. & Berland, M.

• Connected Gaming: What Making Video Games Can Teach Us about Learning and Literacy - Yasmin B. Kafai and Quinn Burke 

• Constructible Authentic Representations: Designing Video Games That Enable Players to Utilize Knowledge Developed In-Game to Reason about Science. Holbert, N. R., and U. Wilensky.

• Constructionist Gaming: On the Benefits of Making Games for Learning. Kafai, Y. B., and W. Q. Burke.

• Dungeons & Dreamers: A Story of How Computer Games Created a Global Community. Brad King John Borland

• Effects of Constructing versus Playing an Educational Game on Student Motivation and Deep Learning Strategy Use. Vos, N., H. van der Meijden, and E. Denessen.

• Empowering Students through Digital Game Authorship: Enhancing Concentration, Critical Thinking, and Academic Achievement. Yang, Y. C., and C. L. Chang.

• From Users to Designers: Building a Self-Organizing Game-Based Learning Environment. Squire, K., L. Giovanetto, B. DeVane, and S. Durga.

• The Game Believes in You - Greg Toppo

• Game–like learning: An example of situated learning and implications for opportunity to learn - James Paul Gee

• Game Mods: Design, Theory and Criticism. Erik Champion

• Gamification Fails: Negotiating Points, Badges, Levels, and Game Play in the Basic Writing Classroom. Michael J. Cripps

• Gamify Your Classroom - Matthew Farber

• Good Video Games and Good Learning - James Paul Gee

• It's All in the Game: Designing and Playing Board Games to Foster Communication and Social Skills - Collins, Kathleen M.; Griess, Carolyn J.

• Learning Problem-Solving through Making Games at the Game Design and Learning Summer Program. Akcaoglu, M.

• Learning, Education and Games. Volume One: Curricular and Design Considerations. Karen Schrier

• Learning to Evaluate Analog Games for Education. Peter Wonica

• Modding board games into serious games: The case of Climate Policy - Edward Castronova, Isaac Knowles

• Modding Tabletop Games for Education: 7th International Conference, GALA 2018, Palermo, Italy, December 5–7, 2018, Proceedings - Daisy Abbott

• Neuromyths: Debunking False Ideas About The Brain. - Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa

• Play to Learn -Sharon Boller and Karl Kapp

• Proceedings of the 2018 Connected Learning Summit

• A Reader in Themed and Immersive Spaces. Scott A. Lukas

• Reality is Broken - Jane McGonigal

• Scientific Habits of Mind in Virtual Worlds. Steinkuehler, C., and S. Duncan

• The Silent Epidemic Perspectives of High School Dropouts - John M. Bridgeland, John J. DiIulio, Jr. Karen Burke Morison

• Strengthening Student Engagement: What Do Students Want - Richard Strong, Harvey F. Silver and Amy Robinson

• Tabletop - Analog Game Design. Greg Costikyan, Drew Davidson

• Uncovering Play Through Collaboration and Computation In Tabletop Gaming - Sean C. Duncan and Matthew Berland

• Using Games to Support the Curriculum: Getting Teachers on "Board" - Crews, Annalisa

• Video Game Storytelling - Evan Skolnick

• Violent video game engagement is not associated with adolescents' aggressive behaviour: evidence from a registered report. - Andrew K. Przybylski

  and Netta Weinstein

• Well Played, a Journal on Video Games, Value and Meaning - Edited by Drew Davidson

• What Video Games Have to Teach us About Learning and Literacy - James Paul Gee

• What Video Game-Making Can Teach Us about Learning and Literacy: Alternative Pathways into Participatory Culture. Peppler, K. A., and Y. B. Kafai.

• Why We Love the Games That Enrage Us Most. Scientific American.

Blogs and Casual Reading

• 20 Games to Teach Social and Emotional Learning

• 3 Ways to Use Game-Based Learning - Matthew Farber

• 5 gaming dynamics that truly engage students - Laura Devaney

• Arm Me With Games

• Ars Technica’s ultimate board game buyer’s guide [2017] [2018]

• The Benefits of Constructionist Gaming - Matthew Farber

• Best Board Games for 2019 - Popular Mechanics

• Board Game Geek, Games in the Classroom

• Board games for kids: Can they teach critical thinking? - Gwen Dewar

• The Board Games Turning Science into Playtime - The Guardian

• Brenda Romero’s Train board game will make you ponder - Dean Takahashi

• Don’t Blame the Designers for Your Digital Addiction - Jordan Shapiro

• Game Mechanics (Wikipedia)

• Hacking the Education Narrative with Dungeons & Dragons - Paul Darvasi

• Hard Fun - Seymour Papert

• How Blockchain-Based Custom Game Modes Are Bringing Back the Spirit of Old-School Games - Luke Zhang

• How Video Games In The Classroom Will Make Students Smarter - Jordan Shapiro

• Indigenous Peoples Are Decolonizing Virtual Worlds. Cecilia Keating.

• Interactive Fiction in the Classroom - Matthew Farber

• James Paul Gee's 16 Principles for Good Game Based Learning

• Kate’s Top 10 Board Game Mechanics - Kate Thompson

• Learning With Our Inner-Gamer: Using Board Games in the Social Studies Classroom - Mike Dunn

• Parents Blinded By Nostalgia When It Comes To Screens, Embracing Video Games Is Part Of The Answer - Andy Robertson

• Playing to learn: Panelists at Stanford discussion say using games as an educational tool provides opportunities for deeper learning - R. F. Macay

• A Quest For A Different Learning Model: Playing Games In School - Mary Talbot

• Reading Digital Games as Texts - Matthew Farber

• The Rhetoric of Gaming - Christine Alfano

• She Invented a Board Game With Scientific Integrity. It’s Taking Off. - NY Times

• Should Board Gamers Play the Roles of Racists, Slavers and Nazis? - NY Times

• Spiel des Jahres (Award winning board games)

• A Step-by-Step Plan for Teaching Narrative Writing - Jennifer Gonzalez

• Take Tabletop Games From Good to Great by Modding Them - Ben Drain

• Taking Advantage of the Power of Play - Matthew Farber

• Teaching Strategies: What Students Might Learn from Playing Board Games - Jordan Catapano

• Using Quests in Project-Based Learning - Matthew Farber

• The Video Games That Made People Question Their Beliefs - Gita Jackson

• What EXACTLY Is Depth of Knowledge?

• Why Playful Learning Is The Key To Prosperity - John Converse Townsend

Video

• 13 Principles of Game based Learning - James Paul Gee

• Building Formative Assessment into Game-Based Learning - Edutopia

• The clues to a great story - Andrew Stanton

• Classroom Game Design: Paul Andersen at TEDxBozeman

• Creative Role-Play Encourages Deeper Science Learning - Edutopia

• Gaming can make a better world | Jane McGonigal

• GERM that kills schools: Pasi Sahlberg at TEDxEast

• How to build a fictional world - Kate Messner

• How to escape education's death valley - Sir Ken Robinson

• James Paul Gee on Learning with Video Games

• Gaming can make a better world - Jane McGonigal

• Managing Game-Based Learning in the Classroom

• Matthew Farber and constructionist gaming | Episode 065

• Myst ‘Exile’ in the Classroom - Tim Rylands

• Playing Games in the Classroom - Jesse Schell

• Seven Reasons to Pilot a Games-Based Learning Unit - John Spencer

• Using Games for Classroom Assessment

• What makes a hero? - Matthew Winkler

• WIRED by Design: A Game Designer Explains the Counterintuitive Secret to Fun