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Educational games: e-learning and videogames in school education

Posted by: Luk on: November 25, 2009

The use of educational games, e-learning and videogames in school education became one of the main objectives of many research centres around the world.
In United States Microsoft, Columbia University and New York University had started a partnership with the Games for learning institute, to conduct different researches on educational games, e-learning and videogames.
In Europe the [...]

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Ecofriendly gifts to teach ecology to our kids

Posted by: Luk on: September 24, 2009

Ecofriendly gifts could be a great way to teach children an ecologic view.
I think that everyone of us knows how important are renewable energies to reduce the earth pollution and try to preserve our ecosystem.
Now days there are a lot of  ecofriendly gifts that work with solar energy and can be given to kids to [...]

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Role playing games and the history of psychology

Posted by: Luk on: September 13, 2009

The term role-playing game has roots in the history of psychology.
In fact, The first to coin the term “Role Play” was Jacob L. Moreno in 1934, after experimenting in 1921 the “theatre of spontaneity”.
Jacob Levy Moreno was a leading psychiatrist, thinker and educator and has been recognized as one of the pioneer of group psychotherapy.
In [...]

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Math games for children

Posted by: Luk on: July 18, 2009

All the games are based on math, there’s not  sport match without a score or  a dice without numbers.
Board and card games need math and players have to do different calculations during a game.
For this reason math games can be, especially for children, a great Mathematics Teaching Method.
Every educator knows how difficult is teaching math [...]

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How to teach reading with clever games

Posted by: Luk on: July 17, 2009

The essential components for a good education are reading, writing and basic computational skills.
Among these three reading is considered the most important. It’s necessary to use creativity and patience to teach reading to children.
Nowadays, with internet and others media invading our lives, the pleasure of reading a book seems lost. However, present and past [...]

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Games and economy: the prisoner’s dilemma.

Posted by: Luk on: June 23, 2009

Games theory is a disciple that studies the problem of the interdependence between the players of the same game.
The behaviour analysis of game players is called strategic interaction and is used in Business studies to understand complex aspects of some kinds of markets and to build descriptive models based on subjects’ behaviours in uncertain situations.
For [...]

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Clever Games and the social development of the child

Posted by: Luk on: June 18, 2009

Games are very important during the child’s growth, and for this reason is very important promote clever gaming activities to our kids. On a social level, children start to develop their gaming activities in three different stages:

Individual games; is typical of new born babies  and it doesn’t involve any social interaction;
Collateral games, children between [...]

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Educational toys: Construction toys for clever children

Posted by: Luk on: June 12, 2009

Among the best educational toys ever invented for children we have construction toys: children love constructions toys, because they can alwais create something new mixing up the pieces, experimenting new shapes and using those creations to set-up fantasy games: cars ships, bridges, houses became in children’s games new playgrounds where the educational gaming approach always [...]

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Art and games meet up in the Tate Modern of London

Posted by: Luk on: June 11, 2009

Art,gaming, recreational activities, interaction with the artefacts and a lot of fun all in one great exhibition at the Tate Modern Gallery of London.
Bodymotionspacesthings, born from creative thought of Robert Morris, is the ultimate great art installation in the Tate Modern Gallery of London.
The visitor can use in a recreational way all the installations of [...]

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Games and playing activities for a cooperative school education

Posted by: Luk on: May 22, 2009

Math games, brain teasers and other clever games are a great educational tool to help teachers to transform the classroom group in a working group. Have a real control of the class group is not easy for a teacher because he/she needs to find some common interest among children of the class.
That’s why games are [...]

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