Exploring the importance of lifelong play
Exploring the importance of lifelong play
An area I’m particularly interested in is the potential of multi-player games as collaborative learning environments. Here are a couple of papers I’ve been looking at recently that explore some of the issues. Constance Steinkuehler, a resercher at the University…
This game falls into the time-travelling cursor genre and is worth a diverting five minutes. Much easier to get my head around than the very confusing time bot (of course, that could just be my limited attention span talking).
I meant to post this link a while back. It’s not really games-related except in that it’s perhaps interesting that there’s nothing even remotely game-related in the top 100 (well, Flash, possibly, at a push). Aside from that, there’s still…
The digiplay initiative site is one of those web sites that I keep returning to but never get the time to really explore in as much depth as I’d like. Among other things, it contains a really excellent research bibliography.…
I recently listened to a really interesting Radio 4 program (Crossing Continents) on computer game playing in Korea, where gamers (or e-sportsmen) are considered cool and there is no concept of nerd. When can I go? On the down side,…
This article from the BBC talks about the level of concern among parents regarding their children’s use of video games and that 43% of parents don’t understand the classification systems. Aside from the obvious issues of lumping all types of…