By Rachel Bolstad
This blog miniseries has profiled the motivations of various game-using teachers we have interviewed in the Games for Learning project.
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Read rest of post: What motivates game-using teachers? Episode 6
Date posted: 22 August 2017
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By Rachel Bolstad
One possible challenge for anyone trying to get their head around the role of games in education is the semantics. Which words should we use to describe learning that involves games? What’s the difference between “educational games” “serious games”, “gaming”, “game design”, or “gamification”?
Read rest of post: Game-based learning: Typologies and butterflies
Date posted: 1 August 2017
By Rachel Bolstad
Read rest of post: Gazing through the fog surrounding games and learning
Date posted: 22 July 2017
Read rest of post: Digital gaming, coding, and makerspaces in NZ schools (Part 3)
Date posted: 28 June 2017
As promised in my previous post, today I'll discuss a few points of interest from the just-published report Digital technologies for learning: Findings from the 2016 NZCER national survey of primary and intermediate schools.
Read rest of post: Digital gaming, coding, and makerspaces in NZ schools (Part 2)
Date posted: 2 June 2017
By Rachel Bolstad
Today NZCER released a report called Digital technologies for learning which presents some findings from the 2016 NZCER national survey of primary and intermediate schools.
Read rest of post: Digital gaming, coding, and makerspaces in NZ schools (Part 1)
Date posted: 29 May 2017
A few months ago I found three small boxes in the NZCER staff room.
They'd been quietly abandoned on the “free to a good home” pile. Their dazzling holographic surfaces caught my eye; the cryptic labels A, B, C caught my imagination.
Read rest of post: Games for learning: Opening all the black boxes
Date posted: 9 March 2017
By Rachel Bolstad
Of the many questions about games and learning that we’re exploring in our project, perhaps two obvious questions to ask are: “Do games actually help learning?” And “What’s the research evidence for this?”
Read rest of post: “Do games help learning? Where’s the evidence?” Simple questions with not-so-simple answers
Date posted: 19 January 2017
Do you want to get inspired and looking for some great reads to fit in before the new year? Our NZCER researchers have their top recommendations for your summer reading, listening and viewing.
Read rest of post: 2016 Summer reads
Date posted: 8 December 2016
By Rachel Bolstad
We’ve discussed some of the negative perceptions about games and gaming on this blog before. These range from perceptions that games and play are frivolous, or distractions from real learning, through to more significant concerns about videogame addiction or violence.
Read rest of post: “What would the principal think?” Game-using teachers on how their peers view their practices
Date posted: 22 November 2016