Exploring the importance of lifelong play
Exploring the importance of lifelong play
I’ve been engaged in some discussion on twitter about The Blood Typing Game, which is designed to demonstrate the principles of blood typing to a ‘younger audience’ (whatever that might be). In this ‘game’ players have to draw blood from…
I was lucky enough to be invited to give a keynote talk last week at the Future of Technology in Education Conference. Although a bit knackered, after a 5am flight from another conference in Cork, I managed to get through…
Myself and Alex Moseley from the University of Leicester are guest editing a special issue of Simulation & Gaming on the theme of Engagement, Simulation/Gaming and Learning. We are seeking submissions from a range of viewpoints and theoretical bases, using…
I’m now two weeks in to Kevin Werbach’s Massively Open Online Course on Gamification. I signed up partly to find out a bit more about the business view of gamification, partly to experience a MOOC first-hand, and partly to put…
These recent Amazon reviews for BIC For Her Ballpoint Pens made me laugh and laugh, but there’s a serious point here too (leaving aside the whole ‘Really, BIC?’ question). If the feedback had simply been a series of rants/earnest comments/serious…
Updates to this blog have been notably inconspicuous over the past eight months. This is primarily due to the arrival of Offspring #2 back in January, compete with sleepless nights, more poo than I care to remember, and general child-related…