Gaming Technology for Critical Thinking

Serious video games have the potential to change the way people learn and train (Gee, 2003; McGonigal, 2011). Experiments quantifying the effectiveness of video games have produced mixed results in terms of learning and performance (Engel et al., 2009; O’Neil, Wainess, & Baker, 2009; Steinkuelhler, Squire, & Barab, 2012). The question is, why? In this panel, three different groups of researchers who have taken different approaches to...