{"id":826,"date":"2010-06-22T10:42:22","date_gmt":"2010-06-22T16:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=826"},"modified":"2014-09-12T11:48:56","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T17:48:56","slug":"attention-educators-serious-games-is-not-equal-to-educational-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2010\/06\/22\/attention-educators-serious-games-is-not-equal-to-educational-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Attention Educators: Serious Games is NOT equal to Educational Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>Here is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seriousgames.org\/about.html\">Ben Sawyer<\/a>&#8216;s latest talk &#8211; a <a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/googleplex.html\">Google Tech Talk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you are one of those people who believes that Serious Games is synonymous with Educational Games, you should watch this. It will give you a pretty good idea of what serious games are and where they are now.<\/p>\n<p>Ben&#8217;s &#8220;Serious Games is NOT equal to Educational Games&#8221; is around the 33 minute mark.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XPaCwjhZ2aY&amp;feature=channel\">YouTube &#8211; Games Everywhere : The Larger Role for Web Platforms and Services for Games &amp; Serious Games<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XPaCwjhZ2aY&amp;feature=channel\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dmill.com\/\">Digital Mill<\/a><\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-826'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(826);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(826);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(826);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Here is Ben Sawyer&#8216;s latest talk &#8211; a Google Tech Talk If you are one of those people who believes that Serious Games is synonymous with Educational Games, you should watch this. It will give you a pretty good idea &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2010\/06\/22\/attention-educators-serious-games-is-not-equal-to-educational-games\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,12,14,24],"tags":[41,389,342,76,393],"class_list":["post-826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational-technology","category-games","category-general","category-teaching-learning","tag-education","tag-educational-technology","tag-games-gaming","tag-serious-games","tag-teaching-learning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-dk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6750,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2018\/02\/03\/whats-the-difference-between-serious-games-educational-games-and-game-based-learning\/","url_meta":{"origin":826,"position":0},"title":"What&#8217;s the difference between serious games, educational games, and game-based learning?","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"February 3, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"This question keeps coming up. 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