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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:
By Rachel Bolstad
By Rose Hipkins
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.
Rose Hipkins
By Rose Hipkins
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.
By Rachel Bolstad
When I reflect on educational aims at the school level, I think of the key competencies in the curriculum (Ministry of Education, 2007).
