A weekly collection of education-related news from around the web.

How Would A Game Designer Approach Education? [Video Essay]

“Game designers are exceptionally good at not just keeping you entertained, but also teaching you how to play the game in the first place. So how do they do it? How do game designers analyze different learning curves, scaffold their information, and have you learn a huge amount of information without making you feel like […]

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Every week I send out articles I encounter from around the web. Subject matter ranges from hard knowledge about teaching to research about creativity and cognitive science to stories from other industries that, by analogy, inform what we do as educators. This breadth helps us see our work in new ways.

Readers include teachers, school leaders, university overseers, conference organizers, think tank workers, startup founders, nonprofit leaders, and people who are simply interested in what’s happening in education. They say it helps them keep tabs on what matters most in the conversation surrounding schools, teaching, learning, and more.

Peter Nilsson

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