Gamification and Educational Games

Integrating video games into learning settings, or designing learning settings based on video games is a slippery slope, however.

Read this article on how educational video games just never got things right. Written in 2017, it provides more of an historical overview of "educational" video games, but many of the same ideas apply to the integration of games into learning settings.

The "gamification" of classroom settings doesn’t always go well and there are a number of critics. If you love something like, Kahoot for instance, read this blog post by an educator, It’s time to stop using Kahoot as a whole class review tool, on potential issues.