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Articles 

Young childeren

• An overview of games for this age – https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/board-games-for-kids/#our-favorite-games-for-preschoolers
• Checklist to choose a game for this age – https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/board-games-for-kids/#how-we-picked-and-tested

• The benefits of playing/games for young children (off and online) – http://info.thinkfun.com/stem-education/benefits-of-toddler-games-early-childhood-education
• Children learn by the fun in a board game – http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/2142024/power-play-kids-are-learning-through-having-fun
• Young children learn by play – https://nivoz.nl/nl/nro/het-jonge-kind-niet-leren-zonder-spelen
• 100 (!) things children learn from board games – https://kidsloveboardgames.com/family-board-game-tips/100-things-kids-learn-from-board-games/ 
• List of games that teach kids basic skills – http://homeschoolgameschool.com/games-teach-basic-skills/?fbclid=IwAR0s5hVIlLRROK4xvgpgsibTWQ3EO7e7awQjhFFReODJsic_Q7qW8P9jpyE
• Simple games that improve the self regulation of toddlers – https://www.vakbladvroeg.nl/eenvoudige-spelletjes-verbeteren-zelfregulatie-van-kleuters/

Primary school

• FiloSprook: can the big bad wolf mean well too? Practice philosophising. In: JSW 2024 #3 – download pdf 
• How to improve your students’ performance, skills and behavior by playing more – http://www.7lifeskills.org/blog/hoe-je-de-prestaties-vaardigheden-en-gedrag-van-je-leerlingen-kunt-verbeteren-door-meer-te-spelen7414021 
• Research shows that board games are a good method to practice science – https://boardgamesforlearning.com/research-games-learn-science/

• The other side of executive skills: games also stimulate quiet children – http://www.vernieuwenderwijs.nl/het-stille-meisje-respons-inhibitie-anders-bekeken/
• What are suitable math games and tips to let children make math games themselves –  https://vangorcumtijdschriften.nl/volgens-bartjens/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2019/01/vb-38-3-Bruin-Muurling-Rekenen-op-kaartjes.pdf
• For children aged 5 – 8 years – https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/board-games-for-kids/#our-favorite-games-for-elementary-school-kids
• Checklist to choose a game for this age – https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/board-games-for-kids/#how-we-picked-and-tested
• Suggestions for games in education – https://www.999games.nl/spelletjes-in-het-onderwijs
• The targeted use of games to practice executive functions – https://www.vernieuwenderwijs.nl/executieve-functies-ontwikkelen-denkspellen/
• Twenty board games that help students work on programming / language / history / economics / deduction / teamwork. – http://thebestschools.org/magazine/play-learn-20-best-board-games-challenge-skills/?utm_source=quora&utm_medium=cthru&utm_campaign=201607
• Eight reasons to play board games with children – http://info.thinkfun.com/stem-education/8-reasons-to-play-board-games-with-your-kids-geekdad
• The usefulness of games in the lesson – https://www.vernieuwenderwijs.nl/game-didactiek-hoe-en-waarom-spellen-les/
• Games to learn to code. – https://www.techadvisor.co.uk/test-centre/gadget/best-coding-games-toys-for-kids-2018-3635899/?amp&__twitter_impression=true
• Learning with a board game – https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/leren-met-een-bordspel-lies-vermant/
• How do you teach with board games – http://minds-in-bloom.com/teach-board-games/
• 5 things you can learn from games – https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/5-dingen-die-je-kunt-leren-van-spellen-inez-groen/
• Kids should play more games at school – https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/children-should-playing-more-games-classroom-heres-why-portnoy-phd/
• 7 games that teach children how to think big – https://bigthink.com/personal-growth/best-board-games-for-children
• the 20 best educational board games – https://freddiesmummyuk.com/games-for-homeschool/
• 7 games to to strengthen your spatial awareness – https://www.smartease.nl/blog/7-spellen-om-je-ruimtelijk-inzicht-te-versterken/ 
• How to implement games in the classroom (video) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPMkwC2umLQ
• teaching with board games – https://www.rhodadesignstudio.com/teaching-with-board-games-in-the-classroom/ 
• Reachers: teaching underachieving gifted children metacognitive strategies – https://docplayer.nl/6238266-Teaching-underachieving-gifted-children-metacognitive-strategies.html

Secondary and higher education

• Gaming to improve geotechnical engineering education—and broaden diversity – https://today.rowan.edu/news/2021/09/rowan-developing-video-games-to-teach-civil-engineering.html?fbclid=IwAR1c3u1RkSZS5bLv1HCjGx8LzxKY8XDG0M4QXqiQp5V0j5N37S8YqEpTFlI 
• Becoming aware of the colonial past – https://indiginews.com/vancouver-island/not-just-a-game-world-of-board-games-faces-reckoning-for-colonial-themes?fbclid=IwAR3Th-Mqo5tHOy-iaBqn87G1MvM7vjsz552UURIUsTZ0bDI1oS2YGeBhDK8
• Gamen in the classroom with Bloom’s taxonomy – https://www.linkedin.com/posts/daan-van-leeuwen-3216b034_vcn-zwerven-door-griekenland-activity-6726860405018370048-DTRo

• Why we should do more games at school – https://theconversation.com/5-reasons-video-games-should-be-more-widely-used-in-school-164264?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=bylinetwitterbutton
• Research shows that board games are a good method to practice science – https://boardgamesforlearning.com/research-games-learn-science/
• What young people can learn from board games – https://www.teachhub.com/teaching-strategies-what-students-might-learn-playing-board-games 
• Gamification in history education – https://www.academia.edu/36313766/Gamification_in_het_geschiedenis_onderwijs_-_de_basis
• Twenty board games that help students work on programming / language / history / economics / deduction / teamwork. – http://thebestschools.org/magazine/play-learn-20-best-board-games-challenge-skills/?utm_source=quora&utm_medium=cthru&utm_campaign=201607
• The usefulness of games in the lesson – https://www.vernieuwenderwijs.nl/game-didactiek-hoe-en-waarom-spellen-les/
• Lesson series in which students make their own game – https://www.vernieuwenderwijs.nl/laat-leerlingen-tabletop-spel-maken/
• A digital magazine full of articles about games / gamification in education – http://kunstzone.nl/images/downloads/edities/2015-KZ_02_web-2.pdf
• Archaeologist helps develop Epoch, a board game about European late prehistory – https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2019/02/archaeologist-helps-develop-board-game-on-european-prehistory
• Why board games can be more effective than e-learning – https://www.gamificationnation.com/why-boardgames-can-be-more-effective-than-e-learning/?utm_campaign=why-boardgames-can-be-more-effective-than-e-learning&utm_medium=social_link&utm_source=missinglettr 
• Board games are a good (the best) way to learn science – https://boardgamesforlearning.com/research-games-learn-science/
• How to implement games in the classroom (video) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPMkwC2umLQ
• An overview of projects related to serious games and game-based learning in education – https://guides.lib.umich.edu/c.php?g=282989&p=5955086
• Gamification in language teaching. An investigation into the correlation between education level and the appreciation of pointification in language exercises in language teaching (Dutch as a Second Language) – http://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/367250
• How to measure the yield of Gamification – https://www.gamification.co/2013/07/17/how-to-measure-the-roi-of-gamification/
• Gamification in higher education – https://start.noordhoff.nl/kennisbank/hoe-gamification-kan-helpen/
• Games are good for your development, says this teacher from the Dutch university college Hanze Hogeschool – https://hanzemag.nl/wie-slim-wil-worden-moet-bordspelletjes-spelen/ 

Speech therapy

• The use of the game Dixit in speech therapy – https://obfuscatedobjective.wordpress.com/2012/03/27/board-games-and-speech-therapy-dixit/

• About the use of board games at speech therapy – https://obfuscatedobjective.wordpress.com/2015/01/26/board-games-and-speech-therapy-narrative-paradigm/
• The use of the game Who Would Win at speech therapy – https://obfuscatedobjective.wordpress.com/category/board-game/

Psychology

• Research into coping with losing a game – https://www.erasmusmagazine.nl/2016/07/28/het-is-niet-maar-een-spelletje/
• Dr*g authority approves iOS-spel goed voor ADHD-treatment – https://tweakers.net/nieuws/168528/amerikaanse-medicijnenautoriteit-keurt-ios-spel-goed-voor-adhd-behandeling.html

• What millennials really love – https://www.telegraaf.nl/nieuws/1735029325/waar-millennials-echt-van-houden-bordspelletjes
• Nostalgic of the board game – https://www.parool.nl/ps/de-plotse-renaissance-van-het-bordspel-vroeg-of-laat-ben-je-klaar-met-netflix~b596e6b4/
• Play is the foundation for academic learning –https://www.vincegowmon.com/the-right-brain-develops-first/
• Why games are good for your mental health – https://www.cardsordie.com/single-post/2019/07/22/Mental-Health-Board-Games-and-Me
• Teen develops game about prejudice – https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/blog/eureka-lab/ISEF-2019-game-may-help-rid-people-biases
• If you play games, you become a nicer person. At least, there it could be – https://qz.com/1063566/playing-board-games-like-magic-the-gathering-can-make-you-a-nicer-person-with-better-relationships/
• Let children lose a game, they learn from it – https://health.howstuffworks.com/mental-health/human-nature/behavior/let-kids-lose-scientists-say-it-helps-children-learn-better-judgment.htm
• The research that belongs to the link above – https://www.researchgate.net/publication/307182538_Success_inhibits_preschoolers%27_ability_to_establish_selective_trust
• Games provide higher IQ teens – https://www.hln.be/nina/-iq-van-tiener-kan-nog-20-punten-stijgen-door-plagen-en-spelen~a038a42d/
• Eight reasons to play board games with children – http://info.thinkfun.com/stem-education/8-reasons-to-play-board-games-with-your-kids-geekdad
• The positive influence of board games on IQ and EQ – http://www.red-oxygen.com/2018/04/29/7-reasons-playing-boardgames/?platform=hootsuite
• The benefits of board games – http://www.scholastic.com/parents/resources/article/creativity-play/benefits-board-games
• Do board games teach children to think critically? – https://www.parentingscience.com/board-games-for-kids.html
• Board games reduce the risk of dementia and depression in the elderly – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3758967/
• Man will return to his deepest being – the game – https://decorrespondent.nl/8432/podcast-de-mens-zal-terugkeren-naar-zijn-diepste-wezen-het-spel/240554445296-d288b077?pk_campaign=sharer&pk_kwd=linkedin
• Man wants to play (with or without rules 🙂 ) – https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2018/07/05/nee-je-bent-nog-niet-te-oud-ook-volwassenen-willen-spelen-a1608994
• Why board games are important for children –  https://thriveglobal.com/stories/why-board-games-are-very-important-for-kids/ 
• How to get better at board games and how those techniques can help you in other areas of your life – https://lifehacker.com/how-to-use-board-games-to-improve-your-real-life-1679783074
• All kinds of love hormones are released when couples play a board game together. Especially in women. Men are better off going to painting lessons with their partner –  https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-02-couples-art-board-games-hormone.amp?__twitter_impression=true
• 5 Reasons Why Board Games Give You The Best Midlife Crisis- https://www.tabletoptribe.com/5-reasons-why-tabletop-gaming-is-the-best-mid-life-crisis-you-can-have/ 
• Playing for a better old age- https://www.swr.de/swr2/leben-und-gesellschaft/spiele-fuer-besseres-leben-thomas-voit-erforscht-den-nutzen-von-spielen-fuer-den-alltag-100.html

At work

• About serious gaming – https://phys.org/news/2019-06-games.html 
• The benefits of games in the workplace – http://info.thinkfun.com/stem-education/the-benefits-of-games-in-the-workplace

• Let employees play as team building – https://www.ad.nl/ad-werkt/geef-geen-geld-uit-aan-uitjes-laat-werknemers-gamen~a744e105/ 
• The CIA uses board games to train employees – https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/03/the-cia-uses-board-games-to-train-officers-and-i-got-to-play-them/
• Want to get better at strategy at work? Go play board games – https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/you-want-more-strategic-start-playing-games-john-hall/
• Research: Playing action games leads to faster decisions- https://tweakers.net/nieuws/69666/onderzoek-spelen-actiegames-leidt-tot-snellere-beslissingen.html
• Games can make you a better strategist – https://hbr.org/2015/09/games-can-make-you-a-better-strategist
• How to measure the ROI of Gamification – https://www.gamification.co/2013/07/17/how-to-measure-the-roi-of-gamification/ 
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Familytime!

• The power of games for your family and how to entice your children to play a board game – https://www.irishnews.com/lifestyle/2019/10/29/news/why-playing-board-games-is-so-good-for-kids-and-how-to-get-them-to-join-in-1748563/ 
• Why some can stand their losses better than others (including in families) – https://www.nemokennislink.nl/publicaties/het-is-maar-een-spelletje/ 

• Fun games for the whole family – https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/board-games-for-kids/#our-favorite-family-games
• Four reasons to play games – http://graycatgames.com/4-reasons-to-play-more-board-games/

About games

• The board game finds a wider audience – https://www.volkskrant.nl/economie/het-bordspel-vindt-een-breder-publiek-weer-eens-wat-anders-dan-film-kijken~b48b18b0/?utm_source=link&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=shared%20content&utm_content=free
• Build your own board game – https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2017/12/15/duizend-oefenpotjes-a1584937?utm_source=nrc.nl&utm

• The rise of Europ (German) board games – https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/01/german-board-games-catan/550826/?ref=quuu&utm_source=quuu
• Some tips from the board game group Dobbelix – https://www.nu.nl/uit/6007401/zo-organiseer-je-in-30-seconds-of-ietsje-meer-een-spelletjesavond.html?fbclid=IwAR1ZGg7nJ1nCSacX5bl-hlSIjTT0FcpBEtH3y0J4bOGQTP9OEJ6NL8pFv0g
• Board games are rising in popularity – https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/25/board-games-back-tabletop-gaming-boom-pandemic-flash-point
• Game cafes spring up like mushrooms! – https://www.wikitribune.com/story/2018/04/25/entertainment/spread-of-board-game-bars-rides-industry-boom-and-digital-backlash/63354/
• The benefits of a game club (for children) – http://info.thinkfun.com/stem-education/the-benefits-of-a-board-game-club?utm_campaign=%27Did%20You%20Know%27&utm_content=71640001&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
• About the history of (board) games – https://publicdomainreview.org/2019/02/20/progress-in-play-board-games-and-the-meaning-of-history/
• Firs board game cafe in Nigeria opens its doors – https://www.today.ng/sport/group-launches-nigerias-board-game-cafe-203538
• First board game cafe in Chennai, India, opens its doors – https://www.deccanherald.com/sports/first-board-game-cafe-opens-in-chennai-734341.html
• Why more an more cafes offer board games – https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/11/board-game-bars/382828/
• Children learn playing board games at de Jonge Strateeg – https://www.bd.nl/tilburg-e-o/kinderen-spelen-bordspellen-op-hoog-niveau-bij-de-jonge-strateeg-het-leert-ze-vaardigheden-aan~af5c9805/
• Tourism / history / education: Drenthe (a Dutch province) uses interactive game to bring the history of Dwingelderveld to life – https://www.rtvdrenthe.nl/nieuws/amp/145320/Geschiedenis-Dwingelderveld-komt-met-interactief-spel-tot-leven
• Board games connect young and old – https://www.spielbox.de/spieler-info/aktuelle-meldungen/615-forschung-und-paedagogik-spiele-verbinden-generationen-und-wecken-lust-am-schreiben

Authors

• Desi created an augmented reality game that helps children practice language and fine motor skills – https://www.hva.nl/faculteit/fdmci/gedeelde-content/nieuws/nieuwsberichten/2019/04/spelend-leren-met-mazehunter.html
• An interview with the creator of Kolonisten van Catan – https://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/the-man-who-built-catan

• Let children make their own board game. Teacher Femke did it and shares her tips in this blog –  https://juffrouwfemke.com/2019/02/08/zeven-tips-twee-bonustips-om-met-je-klas-educatieve-bordspellen-te-maken/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
• There was no play about her passion: birds. That’s why she made a game herself and it’s insanely popular – https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/11/science/wingspan-board-game-elizabeth-hargrave.html
• Make your own game – https://homeschoolgameschool.com/makeyourowngames/
• 9 mistakes to avoid designing educational games – https://clalliance.org/blog/9-mistakes-avoid-designing-educational-games/?fbclid=IwAR1Vc2fBeBNlzpz6zZj8P8V_CvnulwkuXru9LhI4v2naMJG6NWziqgmEmPs
• Build your own boardgame, instruction in 7 steps – https://www.instructables.com/Build-your-Own-Board-Game/