Exploring the importance of lifelong play
Exploring the importance of lifelong play
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…
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…
Thanks to Fiona Littleton (who incidentally runs a excellent course in computer games for learning at Edinburgh University) who sent me the link to this article from Time magazine on the use of computer games to support awareness raising and…
I thought I would round off the year (and the decade) with some thoughts about how gaming has changed in the past ten years, and how these advances in gaming could inform learning. So, I present my Top Five gaming…
I was recently watching one of James May’s excellent television programmes about childhood toys. in which he reminisces and/or uses them to build something incredible and very cool, when he said something that got me thinking. I can’t remember his…
Thanks to Katie Piatt for a recent inspiring blog post on play in relation to student’s learning. She considers how Eberle’s process of play (described by Johan Brand) could be applied to the design of student learning experiences. The process…