Tip of the Iceberg

[Cross-posted at U Tech Tips] Games and the value of game-based learning has been a hot topic for me lately, so I was thrilled to come across Tom Chatfield’s article, Why playing in the virtual world has an awful lot to teach children in the Guardian on the 10th January 2010 (hat tip to @paulmaglione [...]

The kids in the lab have been mad-keen on Moshi Monsters lately. I can only describe the lab as a Moshi pit at break times! [I am using Moshi Monsters as a stimulus for descriptive writing with our K2's, so will blog about how that goes when I am finished.] Moshi Monsters is a neat [...]