Minecraft: Purposeful Building to Prompt Persuasion
“Cocreation is what sets collaboration apart from other collective efforts: it is a fundamentally generative act.” – Jane McGonigal (2011) During an …
Minecraft: Area 52 and the house that ‘god’ built
Whilst the preceding ’Spheres’ session, before the Easter holiday, seemed to galvanise the children as a unified group with a single purpose, participation in …
Kodu and an Epistemic Frame
In a post last week I noted how using game-creation software ‘Kodu’ helped children in my class develop problem solving skills, following …
Sumon: Reflections on Cross-Platform Mental Maths
In some respects it seems easier – and perhaps slightly more conventional – to use a computer game in a maths lesson …
Kodu and the Circuit of Reflective Action
Reflections on a quick lesson using Kodu – a piece of game creating software. Kodu is a free piece of software for …
The Stories So Far: Games as Narrative Opportunities in the Classroom
In the article ‘Game Design as Narrative Architecture‘, Jenkins discusses the opportunities that games – as virtual spaces – offer for the …
Portal 2, Proxies and Boring Persistence
This post isn’t about using technology for learning. It’s about one of the things that stops us using technology for learning: the …