Five Video Games Your Middle Schooler Should Be Playing (Plus a Bonus One)

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Ed Note: To go with our New Tech City episode on games that help your brain, we asked gaming expert Liza Stark at the Institute of Play to give a few suggestions about educational learning games for kids. if you don't know them, the folks at Institute of Play design games and game-like experiences to be used in schools. They recently published the PLAY List for the World Innovation Summit for Education. Working her fellow expertsh, here's her list.

Made With Play: Game-Based Learning Resources
Institute of Play; visit their website for many more resources around game-based learning for both educators andparents, including a comprehensive games and learning reading list (PDF).

PLAY Library