January 4th, 2008 by Jorge Goncalves
Collecting, Organizing, and Managing Resources for Teaching Educational Games the Wiki Way, Shelley Henson Johnson, Brett Shelton, and David Wiley, Innovate, Vol. 4, December 2007/January 2008. Synopsis: Recognizing the pedagogical value of gaming, academics along with game designers and educational content developers have begun producing resources to improve educational game design and make instructional games [...]
October 7th, 2007 by Jorge Goncalves
‘Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a freely available teaching tool designed to be a student’s first exposure to object-oriented programming. It allows students to learn fundamental programming [...]
June 6th, 2007 by Jorge Goncalves
Computer Games: Educational Technology’s Next Frontier?, by John Cavanagh. ‘Academics currently researching the convergence of computer games and education are beginning to suggest that such games could play a significant role as an educational medium, as it is believed they help to develop skills important for children growing up in a technology-driven society. Needless to [...]
April 25th, 2007 by Jorge Goncalves
Pokémon Learning League - Interactice, Animated Lessons for Elementary Schools. ‘Pokémon Learning League is a web-based series of standards-driven, interactive animated lessons for grades 3-6. Guided by an esteemed Advisory Board, the series leverages sound educational practices and Pokémon’s sustaining popularity with children to help teach Science, Math, Language Arts and Life Skills topics in [...]
June 12th, 2006 by Jorge Goncalves
Are virtual worlds the future of the classroom?. ‘This summer, as many as a million virtual kids could catch an infectious virus known as Whypox, causing them to break out in red welts and spout “Achoo” whenever chatting with friends. Meanwhile, at the beach, crowds of “tweens,” 8- to 12-year-olds, will see their popular hangout [...]
