A Gamers Education: Nintendo DS results

http://agamerseducation.wordpress.com/category/nintendo-ds/ Gamers Education blog is a repository for games and the educational value they believe exists in each one. The value can be academic or social in nature. Each game listing includes an image of the game, a brief description and a listing of it’s academic and/or social benefits. Other resources on this site include [...]

UK Game based learning sites

Handheld Learning and GameBased learning are 2 sites that contain some great information for research, proposals and grant applications. http://www.handheldlearning.co.uk/ http://www.gamebasedlearning.org.uk/ Do you know of a good game based or handheld learning site? Let us know!

Nintendo DS in Schools

At St. James’ CE Primary, we have been using the DS Lites with the Braintraining exercises on a regular basis. We have used these in addition to regular paper exercises taken from a range of Braintraining resources. We have incorporated the DS Braintraining with our Guided Reading as an independent activity. Each child initially took [...]

New Find: Nintenducation – A New Take On Edutainment

It’s a great time to be in grade school, if you live in Japan or Great Britain. Several dozen schools in both countries are putting Nintendo DSs in K-12 classes. Games are no stranger to schools, of course. Think back to the 80s when at least 30 minutes of every school day was given over [...]

Slideshare presentations of DS experiences

The following 2 slideshares are of schools/classrooms that have trialled the Nintendo DS systems in their classrooms. Dawn Hallybone of Oakdale Junior School http://www.slideshare.net/HandheldLearning/dawn-hallybone-presentation Anthony Evans of Peter & Pauls Catholic School http://www.slideshare.net/skinnyboy/nintendo-project-report-presentation

Oakdale Junior School DS report

A great artilce on the Future Lab site featuring teacher Dawn Hallybone. “It’s the only time we are quiet,” quips Kianna, aged 11. And there is no dissent from Dawn Hallybone, her teacher at Oakdale Junior School. In fact the silence in the Year 6 maths lesson is remarkable as the pupils immerse themselves in [...]

Doctor Kawashima in the P.6 classroom

More from the Dundee Schools program. by Derek Robertson Some time ago I had a hunch, a gut feeling that Doctor Kawashima’s Brain Training for the Nintendo DS was a tool that had a locus of some kind in classrooms. I remember having the same feeling many years ago when I first saw the Logical [...]

Brain games help distracted kids: study

Brain games help distracted kids: study BY EMMA SHAW SOURCE 25 May, 2010 11:48 PM The effectiveness of commercial brain-training games has been questioned in the media recently but one University of Wollongong academic still believes in the power of play.Dr Stuart Johnstone, an associate professor in UOW’s School of Psychology, is researching the use [...]

Educational Uses for the Nintendo DS

Found this blog on Educational Game Research. After a cautious trial with the English tutorial software, in which students write out the words they hear, and are prompted as to whether their handwriting is correct or not … The school found that nearly 80% of students who used the DS each day mastered junior-high-level competence [...]

Majority of schools think games consoles aid education

Research conducted by the British Educational Suppliers Association (BESA) has found that the majority of schools think that access to games consoles is beneficial to primary children’s education. In a survey of 406 primary schools carried out to determine attitudes to technologies such as games consoles, phones and computers, it was found that three-quarters of [...]