Reading the Game (Sharon)
Is there a greater gulf than that which separates the school librarian and the reading-adverse male adolescent? What hope is there when the school librarian (as this survey shows) is regarded as...
View ArticleGame Geeks: Education’s Bold Pioneers? (Sharon)
Call of Duty (COD), a very violent first person shooter game, is all the rage with (mostly) boys, not least those aged less than the 15 years required of the MA15+ classification. It astounds me how...
View ArticleThe Positive Effect of Gamification on Education – Week 9 (Substantial post –...
Karen Bonanno coined the term “Gamification” at the Creating Future Libraries conference (22/10/12). Bonanno stated that using games as educational tools would allow students to “develop high cognitive...
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