I was asked by the Scottish Further Education Unit to write an article for their magazine Broadcast about games and assessment in colleges. Unfortunately as I wrote, it turned into an article about what the education establishment could do to get good educational games…..
You can download the article here
or read it here (without the cool images)
I am never quite sure how much of […]
Entries Tagged as 'InQuizitor'
Assessing Play
May 29th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: curriculum · InQuizitor · assessment · games · Games based learning
When sex, drugs and violence turns to study
April 29th, 2008 · No Comments
Its been a few months but we’ve got round to releasing lots of new products and software including InQuzitor for kids to use at home. What I find tough to work out is how do I get the message out there that some of the best games designers in the world (part of the original Grand […]
Tags: curriculum · Grand Theft Auto · InQuizitor · digital natives · serious games · games · Games based learning
Assessment
November 25th, 2007 · No Comments
What is it about assessment that every piece of software remotely associated with learning needs to have some form of ‘assessment’ built in.
Before building InQuizitor we spent a lot of time in secondary schools trying (somewhat unsuccessfully) to train kids in some well intentioned but somewhat clunky software. It was a vast piece of software which […]
Tags: curriculum · InQuizitor · assessment