Archive for March, 2009

Great week for Mobile Learning

Monday, March 30th, 2009

It was a great week for mobile learning last week when Norbert Pachler at the Institute of Education pulled together a world class list of presenters at the 3rd WLE Mobile Learning Symposium.

BSF but no butterflies?

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

ancing robots and caterpillars with wings…but no butterflies!
Three leading professors of education laid down a serious challenge to those involved in the Building Schools for the Future programme at a conference in London held on the 17/18th March.
Keri Facer, Professor of Education at Manchester Metropolitan University opened the second day of the event, which had [...]

Games Based Learning

Friday, March 20th, 2009

http://www.tom-watson.co.uk/games-based-learning-09-speech/http://newlearning.blip.tv/posts?view=archive&nsfw=dc
Read the speech by Tom Watson at Games BasedLearning event
Look at the videos here:
And conversations here:
http://www.gamebasedlearning.org.uk/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=58&?board=1.0

Games in Schools

Friday, March 13th, 2009

The European Schoolnet Games in School initiative has set up an online community for discussing anything related to gaming in education. It’ll be the first place to see the results of the pan-European project or to find out about games initiatives near you.
http://gamesinschools.ning.com/
The project has been collating and analysing the pedagogical uses of electronic games [...]