Clockwise from the top -Magnavoz game console, a light gun, game cartridges, SIMON
The Father of Video Games
In 2006 Ralph H. Baer was awarded the National Medal of Technology by the President of the United States for his “groundbreaking and pioneering creation, development and commercialisation of interactive video games”. In fact many believe he invented the [...]
Darren Elliott, who writes the great Lives of Teachers blog, recently interviewed Hayo Reinders, keynote speaker at the 4th International Wireless Ready symposium.
An Interview With Hayo Reinders from darren elliott on Vimeo.
One thing that comes out of the interview, that Hayo also mentioned in his keynote, is that existing games should be adapted, which is [...]
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 [...]
To launch a new series entitled ‘Spotlight on Digital Play Innovators’, here’s a brief profile of Jane McGonigal, Director of Game Research and Development at the Institute for the Future, whose ground-breaking work on alternate reality games (ARGs) has led to a lot of excitement about how the power of games can impact the real-world.
Her [...]