EVOKE is an online Alternate Reality Game (ARG) run by the World Bank Institute and directed by Jane McGonigal. It begins on March 3 2010 and requires gamers to complete ten game challenges over a ten week period. If you want to reserve a place then do so now.
An EVOKE is defined as an urgent [...]
Later today (early tomorrow in some parts of the world), there’ll be an interesting opportunity to join James Paul Gee who’ll be in conversation with Steve Hargadon and Ed Hill about Video Games, Learning and Literacy.
photo by Preoccupations
Event: More Details are here
Date: Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
Time: 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 1am GMT [...]
The World’s youngest professional video gamer
Manyparents complain that their children waste too much time playing video games and not enough time on their schoolwork. Maybe it’s because they are worried that their children won’t study hard at school. If they don’t get good exam results they won’t grow up and get a good job when [...]
Are books on the way out in education? Will their role be taken by educational games?
The Digital Educational Revolution
The explosion of technology that is taking place in schools has led to a number of ideas being put forward related to the death of the book in education. More and more, laptops are being introduced [...]
In 1961 a psychologist by the name of Albert Bandura ran a series of experiments where groups of children witnessed adults attacking an inflatable bobo doll. The bobo doll experiment was conducted to see whether children learnt violent behaviour by observing and imitating others. This ground setting experiment has led to many studies into the [...]
I’m game for the movies
Many films go on to become video games but do you know which films started out as video games? The pictures above show just four of those films, can you name them? You may be surprised to find out that there have been quite a few more. Which do you think [...]