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Excerpt: Gaming Education I have been looking at a lot at “Real World Gaming” and Education recently. This is a subject I have returned to again and again in the course of the last few years. Taking the idea of the culture “around” gaming I outlined in previous blogs, I thought I might explore the natural extension of those ideas into the classroom pulling together various sources and reflect on possible ways forward for teaching and learning. Real World Gaming In “real world” gaming the content of the game is contributed by the players, making it simply a set of tools enabling players…
Gaming Education – How to create a culture of learning through designing real world games in education
July 28, 2010
in advisory, Continual Professional Development, Curriculum, Digital Literacy, Digital Media, distributed networking, Educational Change, Foundation, Games based learning, Handheld Learning, informal learning, Innovation, Learning Content, Learning Tools, mediascapes, mobile learning, pedagogy, Peer to Peer, Personalised Learning, Web 2.0
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Interview with Nina Garforth of Simica – Kowari
January 22, 2007
in Early Years, Foundation, Innovation, KS1, KS2, Learning Platforms, podcasting, Primary, Special Needs, VLE
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Nearing the very end of BETT - in the last half an hour I came upon an Early Years Learning Platform.Nina Garforth, and her assistants Abigail Wells and Heather McDougall, gave me a whistlestop tour of the product. It's fairly unique in that it is for the Primary School and, as you can see, even a 3 year old can send an email! KOWARI has also had a lot of interest from special needs teachers. If you want a simple and very clear VLE for younger children then this is it.
