Games and education: you’re invited to a review

What do computer games have to offer education?  Academic Commons has just published a group of articles exploring the topic, called  Games in Education.  Yours truly authored this one on using games to glimpse the future of education, but I commend each of them to you:

• Learning (together) with games – Civilization and Empire
• This Is Not a Game (It’s a Class): Lessons Learned From An In-Class Alternate Reality Game (ARG)
• Taking Games in Libraries Seriously
• Games in Education May Never Be Mainstream

There’s a fascinating aspect to this beyond the subject’s intrinsic interest.  AC founder Mike Roy published these articles through CommentPress, in order to invite everyone’ commentary.  It’s a form of peer review, where anyone gets to play peer.  So please join in. Annotate, reflect, response, harrumph, disagree, celebrate!