Exploring the importance of lifelong play
Exploring the importance of lifelong play
Excellent resource produced by the iCamp project, aimed at providing an overview for Higher Education practitioners considering using social software to support teaching and learning. This guide has broken social software down into the areas of communication, publication and sharing,…
Just a quick post to highlight the latest issue of the Association for Learning Technology Journal (ALT-J), which is a special issue entitled ‘Learning and Teaching in Immersive Virtual Worlds’. This issue contains a number of papers on different aspects…
This is a selection of clips from the BBC spoof comedy Look Around You, the first four minutes of which look at computer games. I wish I’d had a copy of ‘Space Cabbage’. (Thanks to Jesper Juul for posting this.)
It’s been a long time since my last post – mainly because I’ve been tied up with writing (as well as the Christmas and New Year festivities of course). My first resolution is to get back on track with the…
I’ve been troubled by the whole idea of ‘digital natives’ for some time. Partly because the concept seems like a huge oversimplification, with little robust evidence to back it up, but more worryingly from my experience of staff development, because…
I was at the Becta Research Conference last week, presenting with Cathy Lewin on our work on the MILO project (well, actually it was Cathy’s turn to present and my turn to sit at the front and nod knowingly). I…