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GAMES & EDUCATION

Interested in my approach? Here are some short articles exploring and explaining my thoughts on how story-telling games provide a unique and powerful tool for helping kids learn to write, collaborate, solve problems, present, edit, and grow into their own power as creatives.

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Adaptive Learning: How Story Games Teach Teachers

5 min

Adaptive Learning: How Story Games Teach Teachers

I’ve recently been thinking a lot about how designing games and running them offer a unique approach to designing and running courses for...

Is Minecraft An Educational Game?

5 min

Is Minecraft An Educational Game?

I have endured, as a parent, a relentless PR campaign on the part of my son’s best friend for the better part of a year. The purpose? To...

How RPGs Teach Writing: Acting and Authoring

6 min

How RPGs Teach Writing: Acting and Authoring

Role-playing games do something unique - help players leap "into" story and "out" to the role of authors - all at once!

Journaling With Online Story Games

4 min

Journaling With Online Story Games

One pillar of my educational design at Luck Of Legends is collaborative work using a Google Slides deck. Slides is one of the best tools...

Beyond D&D: Teaching Kids With RPGs - Ages 7-13

12 min

Beyond D&D: Teaching Kids With RPGs - Ages 7-13

This is the second of a two-part blog to help people new to the hobby jump into the educational and emotional benefits of story-game play...

Beyond D&D: Teaching Toddlers With RPGs

6 min

Beyond D&D: Teaching Toddlers With RPGs

This is the first of a two-part blog to help people new to the hobby jump into the educational and emotional benefits of story-game play...

RPGs as therapy - and for learning

5 min

RPGs as therapy - and for learning

If RPGs can help people learn emotionally, how much can they help kids learn academically?

Making Educational Games for Kids, part 2

4 min

Making Educational Games for Kids, part 2

How my classes hit academic standards - and why they count for homeschool credit.

Making Educational Games For Kids, part 1

5 min

Making Educational Games For Kids, part 1

An explanation of my approach to designing role-playing games that teach academic skills.

Violence and Games

5 min

Violence and Games

Violence is central to many games - but most problems can't be solved with it.

Is Dungeons and Dragons For Kids?

4 min

Is Dungeons and Dragons For Kids?

D&D is the introductory role-playing game for many kids - but should it be?

Teaching Through Story Games

5 min

Teaching Through Story Games

Why do story games create so much investment and excitement in learners?