Posts Tagged ‘games-based learning’
Big Brain Academy@ Cathkin Learning Community…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: March 14, 2009
Started using ‘Big Brain Academy’ this week. Basically, for those that don’t know, this consists of 100’s of problem-solving puzzles and mental maths questions. It can be played individually or in teams and will store data so that you can monitor your performance, a little like the Dr Kawashima stuff for the DS. We are [...]
A better week…EePc’s, Gaming and some older research revisited
Posted by: mimanifesto on: November 21, 2008
- In: games-based learning | GLOW | ICT | LTS | Teacher-researchers | teaching and learning
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It’s been a better week in school, with light actually becoming visible at the end of a very long tunnel. More staff are coming to see me about getting their GLOW log-ins and arranging training. We are going to be starting GLOW lunchtime/twilight drop in clinics to support staff who want to move forward with [...]
My SLF08 experience…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: October 4, 2008
- In: games-based learning | GLOW | ICT | Research | teaching and learning | Uncategorized
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With the benefit of a little distance, I thought it was about time I blogged a little about last week’s Scottish Learning Festival. A little hindsight is a great thing, and it’s certainly allowed me to crystallise my thoughts somewhat. For me, this years event was a bit of a watershed. For the previous two [...]
Big lottery – Big plans
Posted by: mimanifesto on: September 9, 2008
- In: games-based learning | Gaming | GLOW | ICT | Leadership | Quality assurance | teaching and learning
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..just had word that my recent big lottery fund bid has been successful – it means I can now go ahead and buy 10 mini notebooks and 10 Nintendo DS consoles with brain-training software for some out-of-hours school projects we want to run during this session using on-line science based games and DS maths and [...]
Reflections on a busy year
Posted by: mimanifesto on: June 28, 2008
- In: AiFL | Finland | games-based learning | Gaming | GLOW | GTCS | ICT | Research | Teacher-researchers | teaching and learning | Uncategorized | VLE
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It’s certainly been an eventful year for me. Looking forward to a beach in Turkey next week, I got a big dose of the reflection city blues and have been thinking all day about how best to sum up 2007-8 in a single post. I suppose I started this academic year back last August [...]
Digital natives-the full story ?
Posted by: mimanifesto on: June 21, 2008
- In: Gaming | ICT | Research | teaching and learning
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For anyone who is interested, Marc Prensky has a blog… http://www.marcprensky.com/blog/ It has links to all his published work to date. Worth a look I think.
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