Resonant Games - Design Principles for Learning Games that Connect Hearts, Minds, and the Everyday Klopfer Eric Professor and Director of the MIT Scheller Teacher Education Program and Education A

Principles for designing educational games that integrate content and play and create learning experiences connecting to many areas of learners' lives.Too often educational videogames are narrowly focused on specific learning outcomes dictated by school curricula and fail to engage young learners. These games are not gamified workbooks but are embedded in a long-form experience of exploration, discovery, and collaboration that takes into consideration the learning environment. This book suggests another approach, offering a guide to designing games that integrates content and play and creates learning experiences that connect to many areas of learners' lives.

Resonant Games describes twenty essential principles for designing games that offer this kind of deeper learning experience, presenting them in connection with five games or collections of games developed at