Showing posts with label game. Show all posts
Showing posts with label game. Show all posts
Sunday, July 10, 2016

The Power of Gaming- Pokemon Go

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There is an ebb and flow in the attitudes and buzz around gaming in education. This week, with the release of Pokemon Go, I saw, once agai...
Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Generation D- the impulse to re-engineer

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I was playing a quiet game of Candy Crush yesterday and my 8 (soon to be 9) year old son Itai came and sat next to me. For me, casual games...
Sunday, September 28, 2014

Game based Mechanics at School

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Last week I went with my kids to their school's "fun night". The fun centers around a fair like set of activities that gener...
Sunday, March 23, 2014

Five things I Learned at EdCampOmaha

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I just came back from EdCampOmaha and I am still  processing. EdCamp is an unconference without a program, fees or a hierarchy. You just sh...
Friday, December 27, 2013

QuizUp- Motivation, Learning, and Dashboard Design, and 6 ways it can work in education

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QuizUp is one of these flash in the pan games that takes the mobile world in a storm. In less than two months it amassed over 5 milli...
Sunday, January 13, 2013

Gaming and being Social

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A lot has been made about the role of gaming in creating lonely and isolated teens and possibly even adults. I think that it is a complex ...
Saturday, August 18, 2012

Video Game like Thinking

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Years ago I remember Sarah and I observed our boys playing when suddenly one of them called 'pause' then proceeded a discussion abou...
Sunday, July 29, 2012

Talking About His (My) Generation

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My oldest Erez is now 18, for a few years now he has been drawing on the generational divide between us as he makes his point about pop cu...
Sunday, June 17, 2012

Creativity, Literacy and Gaming: An Anecdote about Little Big Planet

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My six years old son has been asking me to help him spell lately. "Dad" he shouts from the general vicinity of the TV "ho...