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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 [...]

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