Link Blogging

I've been thinking about video games lately, and whether or not they can be educational (my boyfriend is a junkie for them, but I don't think the kind he plays will make you smarter). Here is a collection of links to some good information on gaming in education.

This link talks about how gaming can be useful because it allows you "fail to success." You can test limits and not be afraid to fail, because it is just a game. I like that idea, and it makes sense. If you blow your head off in a game, you grow a new one. No harm, no foul.

http://www.wideopendoors.net/educational_technology/gaming.html



This is Brainmeld, and organization of people from the video game and educational industries coming together to create video games that would be useful in the classroom. The site contains free teaching guides that help teachers add educational video games to their curriculum.

http://www.brainmeld.org/

This is a very cool blog post by Dannette Veale, the global virtual strategist for Cisco Live and Networkers conferences. She talks about how gaming can actually enhance kids' interest in education. According to her, video games can be a "driver for exploration and discovery."


http://blogs.cisco.com/virtualworlds/comments/gaming_and_education/