Category: Game-based learning

Last week, I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to join my students on a school trip to London. One of my students and a colleague invited me to join them to the Warner Bros Harry Potter studio tour… Read the rest

Last weekend I was invited to come over to friends for some board games. They had a new game called Rising Sun. I hadn`t heard of the game, which is not surprising as it has been released in 2018.… Read the rest

I am Aloy a six and a half-year-old girl and an outcast. At the beginning of the game I get lost and find some sort of electronic device, people from the community do not talk to me because I am … Read the rest

So this wasn’t my first encounter with SimCity, however, I do think it is the first encounter in which it is even slightly possible for me to grasp the idea of SimCity. I think the last time I played this … Read the rest

So I hadn’t had time to finish writing this blog, so here it is, two weeks after the fact.

I played WoW (World of Warcraft) with some of my fellow students on a Monday. All of us had created a … Read the rest

For this week of my course at Edinburgh University I am looking at the effects of video games. Or actually I am reading about the correlation between violence and violent media. Everyone has heard of the news stories of kids … Read the rest

As I am already really familiar with World of Warcraft I decided I needed to find something I hadn’t played before to get myself in the mode of seeing what I can learn from the game as a teacher. A … Read the rest

Usually when I bought something new I do not use the manual. I find joy in trying to figure out how something works and reading the manual would spoil that feeling of accomplishment when it finally works. Though some people … Read the rest