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A number of NZCER staff contribute to our blogs and we link to and draw on external expertise. We hope it is a useful source of information, ideas and support about NZCER's work and wider educational and assessment issues. We welcome your questions and comments.
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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
By Rachel Bolstad
Read rest of post: What motivates game-using teachers? Episode 5
Date posted: 2 November 2016
By Sue McDowall
One of the teachers in the Games for Learning project described a conversation she had with the students in her class about how they might transfer into their school work the resilience and perseverance they showed when failing during gaming:
Read rest of post: Why are students prepared to fail with games and not with school?
Date posted: 25 October 2016
By Rachel Bolstad
Read rest of post: What motivates game-using teachers? Episode 4
Date posted: 19 October 2016
By Rose Hipkins
Date posted: 7 October 2016
One of the questions that we, and the teachers we work with on the Games for learning project, are fascinated by, is what makes games so engaging.
Read rest of post: What makes learning through games so engaging? - written by Sue McDowall
Date posted: 3 October 2016
Rose Hipkins
Read rest of post: The knotty issue of assigning curriculum levels to assessment results
Date posted: 21 September 2016
By Rose Hipkins
Read rest of post: Making progress in evidence-based reasoning: what part do contexts play?
Date posted: 16 September 2016