What playing Minecraft tells researchers about social learning : Short Wave Minecraft is a movie and a very popular video game with iconic block graphics that characters can "mine" for building material and gems. It's also what cognitive scientist Charley Wu and his team util...

"The study found that the most successful players were the most adaptive, switching between individual mining and using social learning when the situation called for it." #minecraft
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Netflix releases Thronglets game tied to Black Mirror ‘Plaything’ episode Netflix has released a very strange simulation game called Thronglets that is tied to the new Black Mirror Season 7 episode called Plaything.

"That’s pretty cool #transmedia from Netflix, and it shows that it’s still one of the only companies that can release a TV show and a game about the same subject on the same day."
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Why Everyday Communication Matters: 5 Tiny Choices That Shape Us In Big Ways Co-authors Andy Merolla and Jeffrey Hall share 5 key insights from their new book, The Social Biome: How Everyday Communication Connects and Shapes Us.

"Meaningful engagement with others is critical to health and wellbeing, but we live in a time when any kind of engagement is dwindling."
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How 'cozy gaming' is taking mindfulness mainstream Meditative hits like 'Stardew Valley' and 'Animal Crossing' are helping a generation of gamers foster helpful habits.

"Gamers often describe cozy games as helping them enter relaxed, meditative states and reduce stress."
mashable.com/article/cozy... #videogames

Why history instruction is critical for combating online misinformation Critical thinking involves specific skills for assessing evidence, but background knowledge about the subject is also essential.

"Attempts to limit students’ knowledge about the past imperil their chances of being able to think critically about new information." #medialiteracy #history
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The big idea: do we worry too much about misinformation? Seeing falsehoods everywhere is as damaging as believing too much. Our focus should be on helping people interpret information better

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m... #medialiteracy

Lessons from gaming: Margaret Kerrison on immersive storytelling Margaret Chandra Kerrison talks to blooloop about her new book, The Art of Immersive Storytelling: Strategies from the Gaming World

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Using Video Game Design to Teach Literacy Skills -- THE Journal The Max Schoenfeld School, a public school in the Bronx serving one of the poorest communities in the nation, is taking an innovative approach to improving student literacy.

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Playful People Proved More Resilient During Covid – They Excelled at ‘Lemonading’ Adults with high levels of playfulness showed strong resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic compared to less playful folks, says new study.

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Guilford County Schools is home to first public gaming and robotics elementary school in the country Historic Foust Elementary School in Greensboro is the country’s first public gaming and robotics elementary school.

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Live Interactive Narrative Experiences for Education - GameTrain Learning Can a Live Interactive Narrative Experience be an effective educational medium? Real Life to Video Games to Real Life In the early days of video games, many games were attempts to create digital versi...

A4: I'd be interested in a chat about live, in-person, immersive educational gaming experiences like described here: gametrainlearning.org/articles/liv... #LevelUpEDU

Fear and Expulsion: Under Trump, History Is Poised to Repeat Itself The U.S. has repeatedly tried to remove nonwhite people from society, often leading to generational trauma.

This is why we are launching the HistoryCraft (historycraft.live) project. #minecraft #gbl #history
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Minecraft coming to London this spring as new interactive experience London is getting a new Minecraft immersive experience, set to open in the new Corner Corner venue at Canada Water on 4 April.

blooloop.com/brands-ip/ne... #minecraft

The Power of Play A focus on engagement and innovation can bring joy—and excitement about learning—back into the classroom.

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Nvidia will let you team up with genAI video game NPCs that act like human players Nvidia announced ACE autonomous game characters at CES 2025, which are video game characters powered by generative AI models.

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Open-World Games Like Zelda Can Boost Your Mental Health, Study Says Many modern video games fall into the open-world category, giving players vast, detailed worlds to explore – and a new study shows these expansive digital playgrounds have benefits for our mental heal...

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I'd be interested in a #gbl book club!

Gameful Mindset - GameTrain Learning Gamers have a “gameful mindset,” which describes the unique ways in which gamers think and learn - and live

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