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Podcast #1 (audio): Scot Osterweil on Zoombinis, Part 1
Scot Osterweil from MIT’s Education Arcade is the lead designer for LG2G. He was also the designer of “Zoombinis,” a series of math-based learning games that has sold over one million copies. Listen to Scot discuss his ideas about digital learning games and the process by which he and his team created “Zoombinis.”
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Podcast #2 (audio): Scot Osterweil on Zoombinis, Part 2
The second installment of the interview with Scot Osterweil from MIT's Education Arcade.
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Podcast #3 (audio): Zoombinis in the Classroom
In our last show on “Zoombinis,” Educational Tech Specialists Pam Howell and Sue Howard discuss how the game is used in the Concord, Massachusetts school system.
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Podcast #4 (audio): MIT's Henry Jenkins, Part 1
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.
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Podcast #5 (audio): MIT’s Henry Jenkins, Part 2
Henry Jenkins shares more of his ideas about digital games and how they can be used as learning tools in the classroom. 
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Podcast #6 (video): MIT's Education Arcade Video Podcast - Designing the Learning Games to Go Game
In our first video podcast, the project manager and graduate students from MIT’s Education Arcade talk about the ways they think about gaming and how these ideas have shaped the design of the LG2G game.
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Podcast #7 (audio): FableVision's President Paul Reynolds
FableVision recently began its work as 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.
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Podcast #8 (audio): FableVision's Vice President Gary Goldberger
In our second podcast about FableVision, the company’s Vice President Gary Goldberger talks about his work and his own learning journey.
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Podcast #9 (audio): FableVision's CEO and Founder Peter Reynolds
We wrap up our series on FableVision by speaking with Peter Reynolds, the CEO and founder of the company.
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Podcast #10 (video): Learning Games to Go Advisors on What Teachers Need
Our advisors met this spring to talk about what teachers need to make the best use of our new learning game.
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