Tip of the Iceberg

Want to know what our kids are capable of achieving in just over a week? Here are some photos to show you some parts of our world! Our Minecraft ECA met on Monday, and it was great to check in with what happened over the week. Top on my agenda was to get a list [...]

Overheard in the lab: “My Mum says she can’t believe UWC is offering a Minecraft activity. She says it’s a waste of time.” Me: <breathe> DM from @jplaman: Me: <breathe> I guess it’s time! This blog post is proving hard to write. I have rewritten this paragraph about 14 times, mostly because I am trying [...]

[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 [...]