Blog Examines Microworlds and Explanatoids

Check out David Learns Games to read one blogger’s thoughts on tech development, academic research, and game-based learning. In a recent post, Microworlds, Explanatoids, and Extending the Islands of Expertise Theory, the author synthesizes David Williamson Shaffer’s book How Computer Games Help Children Learn, with other scholarly work David has done with Gina Svarovsky. The blogger, who is a game designer himself, ends with the comment that, “If it is true that a game seeking to deliver learning through exploratoids must be not only iterative and autoexpressive but also expressive then I fear that I may be in a hot spot!”