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!

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 [...]

Nintendo hardware in the classroom? Why not?

Great report by Christopher Dawson When Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto gets an idea in his head, big things tend to happen. In fact, a couple years ago, the company banned him from speaking to the press about his hobbies. An interest in puzzles begat BrainAge. A physical fitness kick gave us Wii Fit. You get the [...]