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Video Games Evolve: A Brief History from Spacewars! to MMORPGs

I was able to attend the opening of the Video Games Evolve exhibit last Monday at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. It’s amazingly cool that this kind of institution made the decision to host an exhibit on video games.
I had quite a bit of fun playing with Spacewars! and looking through the fantastic assortment [...]

Teaching Search Techniques with Google Games

Educators routinely discuss how students have trouble evaluating and using the results of their Google searches. There are really two parts to this problem, though, and while it’s true that students may struggle to identify reliable sources, before we can address that, we need to teach them how to write good queries.
It’s that old computer [...]