Games for Impact Ideas

The Game-Based Learning Summit is a 3-day event for gaming innovators, scholars, teachers, and students to experience serious gameplay, game development, and game-based learning.


Summit Structure

The summit features panel discussions from experts who will articulate the benefits of legitimate game-based curricula in K-16 classrooms. Seminars for teachers will include an introduction to game development, resources for... more »

Too many kids aren't interested in learning programming, and many existing programming resources can be difficult, dry, or at least uninspiring.

"Learn to Program with Minecraft Plugins" is a new book by Andy Hunt (pragprog.com/titles/ahmine) to try and engage avid Minecraft players and teach them the very basics of Java programming.

This hits couple of very necessary points (IMHO): the game environment is already... more »