Nicola Whitton
This blog contains my personal musings on games, learning, computers, engagement, fun, playfulness, technology, and other stuff that takes my fancy.
playful thoughts on games and learning
Just a quick post to highlight a new alternate reality game meta-site, looking at ARGs in institutions: museums, libraries, schools and beyond. This site contains a whole range of resources on ARGs in different fields, including research, articles, discussion and links to the games themselves. Well worth a peruse if you have a couple of [...]
I felt the need to have a little rant. Last night I watched Jo Frost’s Supernanny Extreme Parental Guidance (hoping to pick up some tips, clearly) and managed to get very, very annoyed at one of the features. This centred around whether violent computer games make kids lack empathy, and the experiment was so full [...]