Gaming in Education

and on a related theme:

Gamification in Education

As a gamer, and someone who works in an education environment, I've always had an interest in trying to merge the two. As such, the above two videos are of interest to me, along with this blog post:

http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2009/07/do-most-educational-games-suck.html

I thought pulling out one or two websites with good gaming resources might help. (This is in addition to Kodu and Scratch).

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