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…
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’ve been really bad over the past few weeks at keeping the blog up to date, mainly because I’ve had my head down working on my first book (it’s really scary that it’s already being advertised). However, I realise that…
Well it all went so quickly, but another excellent European Conference on Game-Based Learning, organised by my friends Jordi Sánchez-Navarro and Dani Aranda. For me, this is one of the best conferences of the year – lots of relevant and…
I had another good day yesterday at ALT-C 2008, and was very pleased to finally meet Juliette Culver, Alex Moseley and Daniel Livingstone – all doing excellent work in games and education.The talk here has been very much centered on the potential of ARGs in teaching…