http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=2909368672776609505&hl=en&fs=true

Design educator Meredith Davis describes design-based education and provides examples of how it can be used in the classroom to meet local and state standards. She also presents evidence from various studies to prove the success of design-based education in meeting education goals and engaging students. From her keynote address at the Cooper-Hewitt: Learning by Design (via Google Video)

See also: Quest to Learn, the game-design as learning based school in NYC.
See also; P4games.org.