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New game designer Hannah Wyman won a trip to New York, got a grant for her school, educated kids, and met the President of the United States. And she managed it all around her dance lessons and her homework, because she's eleven years old. More »
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"I'm running tonight." More »
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Scott Laidlaw is slowing down the pace on educational math games. More »
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Galileo discovered the language of nature. Einstein questioned the color of rainbows. Today's physicists ponder the vertical acceleration and horizontal velocity of an angry bird in flight. More »
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Armed with M-4 automatic rifles, swathed in body armor and combat fatigues, the five man U.S. Special Forces Airborne entry team stacks up outside the entrance to the house. More »
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Nintendo is teaming with The National Association for Music Education to get the Wii and Wii Music into schools, the two announced today. More »
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It's a bit of a nostalgic day today at Kotaku (or maybe I've just done a poor job of getting out of the historian mindset this weekend), but a post over at Educational Games Research brought back memories of childhood and elementary school — Oregon Trail, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego (I vaguely remember a PBS television show that we were required to watch once a week), typing teachers (though we used PAWS in the 3rd grade, not the Mavis Beacon mentioned). Ah, memories: More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5055948&view=rss&microfeed=true I sort of hope the Zero Punctuation knock-off dies a quick death, but reader Nathan M. sent us this video, which is based off an article by designer James Portnow. There's nothing ground breaking here — the idea that educational games simply try too hard, while regular 'fun' titles can inspire learning without having to try and teach themselves is nothing new, but the video is certainly a lot more fun than the average essay. Nathan said, "I'm a 5th grade social studies teacher. I still like to play games as much as I can but I've always been disappointed with state of educational games. This gives the best explanation of this phenomena and the best approach to correcting it I've seen." More »
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News University offers free online training for journalists and would-be journalists. You just need to create an account. They've got a few games as part of their courses, which you can play for free if you create an account. More »
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Eco-games? Yep, yep. Plenty Magazine has an interesting piece up taking a look at the green games phenomena. Games like Adventure Ecology teach kiddos about the environment's complex interdependencies in a way that linear media, like books, cannot. Benjamin Stokes, cofounder of Games for Change, a nonprofit group that supports serious game devs, sees striking similarities between games and nature—pointing that that both are interactive systems. More »
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