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Date posted: 7 October 2016
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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
By Rachel Bolstad
Not all Games for learning teachers started out as gamers. Today we're going to look at another trajectory followed by some of the game-using teachers in our study: The play-based learning advocates.
Read rest of post: What motivates game-using teachers? Episode 3
Date posted: 15 September 2016
By Rachel Bolstad
Read rest of post: What motivates game-using teachers? Episode 2
Date posted: 12 September 2016
When I reflect on educational aims at the school level, I think of the key competencies in the curriculum (Ministry of Education, 2007).
Read rest of post: Argumentation: another candidate for measuring progress?
Date posted: 8 September 2016
By Rachel Bolstad
Read rest of post: What motivates game-using teachers? Episode 1
Date posted: 2 September 2016
