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What We've Learned from Two Decades of Educational Games with Dan White of Filament Games
Dan White is founder and CEO of Filament Games, an educational game company that’s been breaking ground in game-based learning for 18 years.
Dan believes that good gameplay and good learning are complementary rather than oppositional forces. An alumnus of Cornell University and the University of Wisconsin – Madison, Dan earned an M.S. in Education Technology under seminal learning game scholars Drs. Kurt Squire and James Paul Gee. Prior to founding Filament in 2005, Dan worked as a teacher, an instructional designer, and a game developer. Dan’s passions include learning games, sustainability, mindfulness, and modernizing institutional education.
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