{"id":30428,"date":"2012-06-28T15:30:27","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T19:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=30428"},"modified":"2012-06-28T15:30:27","modified_gmt":"2012-06-28T19:30:27","slug":"new-lab-aims-to-create-study-educational-games-sherr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2012\/06\/28\/new-lab-aims-to-create-study-educational-games-sherr\/","title":{"rendered":"New lab aims to create, study educational games [Sherr]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/digits\/2012\/06\/27\/new-lab-aims-to-create-study-educational-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>New lab aims to create, study educational games<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from the Wall Street Journal by Ian Sherr<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">A new videogame design lab is coming to Silicon Valley, but its goals are different from the studios that cook up the next \u201cBattlefield\u201d war simulation shooter or \u201cWorld of Warcraft\u201d multiplayer fantasy game. This one is focused on helping students learn.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Electronic Arts is going to be home for a new project called the Games, Learning and Assessment, or GLASS, Lab. The effort is funded in large part by $10.3 million in grants from The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The project will have two primary goals: building next-generation educational games, and creating tools to take existing games, potentially such as EA\u2019s upcoming \u201cSimCity,\u201d and measure what students learn from them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New lab aims to create, study educational games &#8212; from the Wall Street Journal by Ian Sherr Excerpt: A new videogame design lab is coming to Silicon Valley, but its goals are different from the studios that cook up the next \u201cBattlefield\u201d war simulation shooter or \u201cWorld of Warcraft\u201d multiplayer fantasy game. This one is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[215],"tags":[24,151],"class_list":["post-30428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational-games-serious-games","tag-educational-gaming","tag-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30429,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30428\/revisions\/30429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}