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Reading, Writing and Arithmetic on the Web or the Wii

Posted on December 3, 2007. Filed under: children, collaboration, education, edutainment, gaming, kids, technology, wii |

I’ve just had a quick go on a few games on the Arcademic Skill Builders site, having read a blog posting by the Shifted Librarian “The Three Wii R’s“. Arcademic Skill Builders are providing free educational ‘arcade’ games for (younger) children that can be accessed over the web, or using a Wii browser and ‘mote. There are single-player and [...]

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Virtual Edutainment Worlds for Children

Posted on October 26, 2007. Filed under: accessibility, barbiegirls, children, club penguin, education, edutainment, funkeys, future, gaming, kids, play, sharing, technology, tygirlz, webkinz |

When speaking at the Virtual Worlds Forum in London this week about the game-related worlds targetted at children (primarily those that link membership of the world to ownership of a toy) Lord Puttnam (who is incidentally the new Chancellor of The Open University) presented the following challenge:
“The challenge ahead is this - to ensure that [...]

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A kids-eye view of wii gaming

Posted on September 14, 2007. Filed under: design, gaming, kids, play, technology, wii |

I read this post (”A kid’s-eye view of laptop design” about a group of primary school children who pretend to email each other using keyboards that they have drawn out on paper:
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9778012-7.html
and it reminded me that my daughter has this week drawn and cut out a couple of ‘motes and a screen and has been [...]