Frustration regulation usually gets measured with a survey. In Mooving Cows, it shows up as a sequence of cattle handling decisions the game observes directly - see how simulations excel at measuring soft skills:
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How do you measure learning without stopping the game to administer a test? See how evidence-centered design embeds assessment directly into your mechanics.
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Why do so many teacher dashboards go unopened? See what the research says about reporting tools that hold up in a classroom.
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What does proof actually look like for a learning game? We pulled the impact numbers from our own portfolio to show what each kind of metric demonstrates:
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Bill Gates warns on AI and critical thinking, a classroom pilot measures what students retain, MIT rethinks grading, and New York City pauses AI in its K-8 classrooms. Check out the latest in AI and learning.
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This month in game-based learning: middle schoolers coding their own games, a depression-prevention game backed by a clinical trial, and a new law holding edtech accountable for student data.
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An educational game can pass every accessibility scan and still lock out a student who uses a screen reader. With ADA deadlines looming, this issue is more urgent than you might realize! Learn below about steps you can take to make your game accessible:
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A new 50-state study finds demand for game-based learning almost everywhere, but paints a different picture about technology availability. So today we’re grappling with a core question: What makes a school ready to use game-based learning?
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When your players are students, privacy law is a core consideration for your educational game project. Learn how privacy by design enables procurement after you launch:
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Sign up for our webinar! Using our upcoming game Tales from the Middle - created in partnership with the Bezos Family Foundation - we’ll explore how a narrative game can help students practice for their first week of middle school.
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A brilliant educational game that a teacher can't launch from their own LMS is a game most classrooms will never meet, and LTI 1.3 is how you fix that. Learn more:
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📩 We have three panel proposals up for SXSW EDU 2027 community voting, and we would love your help getting them to the stage! Learn more:
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Here's something to watch with your afternoon tea! 🍵Filament Games CEO Dan White looks back on 20 years of learning games and ahead to what's next in his recent Games for Change session:
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Heading to SXSW EDU next year? We've got three PanelPicker submissions up for consideration - check them out and cast your vote below!
Games for Democracy and Media Literacy
- We look at how play can build the critical thinking skills students need to make sense of the information they encounter every day.
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Games as AI-Proof Assessments
- We explore what game-based assessment can offer as traditional testing grows more vulnerable to AI.
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Narrative Games for Adolescents
- We examine storytelling for rising middle schoolers through our project Tales from the Middle.
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This month's research on AI and learning highlights an important point: the tools that help students most are the ones that keep them thinking. 🧠
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This month in game-based learning: a Nigerian board game that teaches disease prevention, teachers coding their own classroom games with AI, and fresh evidence that speed-training games may lower dementia risk.
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Our July roundup pulls together six posts on how game-based learning builds sustainability skills, climate literacy, and crisis readiness for schools, workforces, and communities:
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Can a video game get a teenager to care about the climate? Three recent studies have looked to answer that very question. Learn more:
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