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Starting to Think about Gaming

Jan 16th, 2007 | By Eric Hoefler | Category: Education/Literacy

For a while, I’ve been interested in the intersection of gaming and education and the possibilities that both online and offline games have for helping us improve education.
My original interest in this was sparked long ago by role-playing games. It always struck me as somewhat amazing the amount of time, thinking, reading, and calculating [...]



Permission to Play

Dec 8th, 2006 | By Eric Hoefler | Category: Education/Literacy

For about five years, I’ve been running an online community with a few teachers and their students at my school. This year, as “Web 2.0″ continues to expand our educational options, I’ve started finding ways to wrap some of these features into the site, and I’m very excited about the tools we can offer [...]