Institute of Play

02/17/2022

Calling all middle and high school educators! Want to learn a new platform for your students? 👩‍🏫

G4C is excited to offer a virtual workshop to learn more about the CoSpaces game design platform! Explore ways to integrate AR, VR, and more into your classroom.

Fill out the form below to secure your spot - space is limited!

👉 https://bit.ly/3Jvpj7l

03/27/2019

Attention NYC students: is hosting its final Challenge Game Jam of the school year at in Queens! Students can join G4C on April 6, to create games about Endangered Species with leading professionals, and prepare for the Student Challenge competition (learn more here: bit.ly/g4c_challenge)! All experience levels are welcome, and no prior experience is required! REGISTER FOR THE GAME JAM NOW [+ image]: bit.ly/Apr6GameJam

The G4C Student Challenge is a game design competition for middle and high school students in New York City, Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Detroit to create digital games. The deadline to submit to this year's competition is April 12, 2019 ( Atlanta + Los Angeles) and April 18, 2019 (NYC + Detroit).

03/13/2019

What's next for Nintendo Labo? Nintendo of America has announced its plans to launch a virtual reality headset to go along with the Nintendo Switch to encourage social game play.

Nintendo Labo's new VR Kit set brings virtual reality to Switch this spring.

03/07/2019

Check out this video from Angela Abend of Oceanside, NY that features her class (Project Extra) building their collaborative, communicative, and critical thinking skills during their Toy-Con RC Tank Challenge. Great job!

Over six minutes, and they were determined to complete the Toy-Can RC Tank Challenge. They did not focus on the camera at all and they used their collaborative,…

03/01/2019

Designers and Educators: Institute of Play has free resources and other tools that you can download on our website to implement games and other game-like learning activities in your classrooms

02/26/2019

Gamesforchange is hosting its next Challenge Game Jam for NYC students at NYU Game Center on March 2! Join G4C to create games about Disrupt Aging: Implications of Living 100 and prepare yourself for the Student Challenge competition (learn more here: bit.ly/g4c_challenge)! No prior experience is required! REGISTER FOR THE GAME JAM NOW

The G4C Student Challenge is a game design competition for middle and high school students in New York City, Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Detroit to create digital games. The deadline to submit to this year's competition is April 1, 2019.

02/19/2019

Visit our website instituteofplay.org to find resources on game-like activities you can use in your classrooms to build 21st-century skills!

As anyone who’s ever spent hours hunched over Candy Crush can attest, there’s something special about games. Sure they’re fun, but they can also be ...

02/12/2019

Game-Like Learning Principle #4: Learning happens by doing - Learning is active and experiential. Students learn by proposing, testing, playing with, and validating theories about the world.

Quest Learning in Action videos bring the model of game-like connected learning to life, providing learning practitioners with a view into the way the model is implemented…

02/05/2019

Great quote from a mom and participant and student attending The Northeastern Regional Information Center's Technology Awareness Day!

"Five-, six- and seven-year old students in our district are participating in activities with , using a lot of science and coding. Kids don’t even realize they’re learning because they are having so much fun!"

“"Five-, six- and seven-year old students in our district are participating in activities with , using a lot of science and coding. Kids don’t even realize they’re learning because they are having so much fun!" —Jess Rau (and her son 😊) at ”

01/30/2019

01/16/2019

So exciting to see the continued joy on student's faces as they play and learn with