Educators are convinced there are so many great reasons to include digital games among classroom activities. The landscape of learning games is confusing and many teachers understandably have no idea how or where to begin. This resource offers many practical and current tip to guiding your launch.

We understand that games: (1) Provide a different approach to developing metacognitive skills through persistent self-reflection and iteration opportunities of particular skill sets/learning (2) Can create an especially engaging interdisciplinary learning space (3) Offer experiential contextualized learning through virtual simulation - more visual and dynamic (4) Are not meant to replace the human-to-human relationship and can encompass social learning (5) Are tools that teachers can use to effectively design lessons and enhance the curriculum