Our first meetup! Hazel Bradshaw from the new Te Papa Learning Lab gave us an update and our guest speaker Bron Stuckey got us thinking about games and game design. Dan and Dave from Gamefroot took over in the afternoon to show the potential of this platform for students to design their own games.
Author: Leanne Stubbing
Podcast Review: Games are good for you!
Note to Self: The Secret to Making Video Games Good for you
Produced by WYNC studios
Quite often gaming is looked at in a negative way so it is refreshing to hear research that frames gaming in a more positive way. This particular episode is an interview with Jane McGonigal a researcher at the Institute for the future. Yes this is a real place and yes I want to go there!