As we developed products for the Learning Games to Go project, we learned a lot from people who had made learning with games their business for many years.

Check out these podcasts to hear what they told us.

AUDIO PODCASTS

• Game designer Scot Osterweil
• Henry Jenkins, the Director of MIT's Comparative Media Studies program, talks about digital games, their role in our culture now and how they might be used in the future.
• Henry Jenkins shares more of his ideas about digital games and how they can be used as learning tools in the classroom.
  
• FableVision is the project game developer for Learning Games to Go. Hear FableVision president Paul Reynolds talk about this unique mission-based company in the first of a three-part series.
• In our second podcast about FableVision, the company's Vice President Gary Goldberger talks about his work and his own learning journey.
• In the third installment, Peter Reynolds, the CEO and founder of Fablevision, shares some of his thoughts on learning, story, and game design.
• University of Vermont professor and game researcher David Gibson talks about his creation, simSchool, an online classroom simulation that helps train new teachers.
• Jesper Juul, a lecturer and researcher at the Singapore-MIT Gambit Game Lab, discusses some of his "big picture" ideas around video games.
• Jesper Juul shares more of his thoughts about video games, specifically how they can be used to teach and what it might take to bring them to more classrooms.

VIDEO PODCAST

• MIT's Education Arcade brought together a team of graduate students who live and breathe games every day. Here, they share some of their sensibilities about game design and learning.
  

VIDEOS

• In working with games like Lure of the Labyrinth, teachers should adopt a questioning attitude, rather than an answering one. Just how do you do that? Game designer Scot Osterweil demonstrates one way.
• To help teachers plan for success in playing Lure of the Labyrinth, MPT developed a professional development video to help them achieve that goal.

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