Partial Recall » Games http://www.robfay.com Rob Fay has over twelve years of experience supporting federal, state, and commercial information technology and product development initiatives. He has a passion for user experience topics including information architecture, interaction design, social media, information management, and usability. Mr. Fay currently works as Blackboard's User Experience Architect. In his role of being the user advocate, he leads the company's user research efforts, curates their design pattern library, and designs products that transform the experience of education. Rob holds graduate degrees in Information Management and Marriage and Family Therapy from the University of Maryland, College Park. He lives in the outskirts of DC in suburban Maryland with his wife, twin 4 yo daughters, and his dog named Mattingly. Thu, 12 Aug 2010 16:24:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Games in Education http://www.robfay.com/2006/07/09/games-in-education/ http://www.robfay.com/2006/07/09/games-in-education/#comments Sun, 09 Jul 2006 20:11:58 +0000 Rob Fay http://robfay.com/2006/07/09/games-in-education/ Although a majority of my career has been spent working as a contractor for the federal government, I’m now working for a company in the e-learning industry. Therefore, I’ve begun to follow technology issues as it relates to education.

Mark Wagner of the EdTechLife blog linked this interesting video [Quicktime movie] about how educators can incorporate games to facilitate learning. He created a webcast about video games in education, with interviews of Henry Jenkins, James Paul Gee, Clark Aldrich…

Gaming is getting much more traction in the education arena. There are some fantastic ways that students can learn while also having some fun. Hopefully this video will encourage you to see the possibilities.

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