Guy's Edu Blog

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...

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...

  by    Andrew Beeston   We had the  TechEDGE 12  conference on campus two weeks ago. Rick Marlatt presented about Minecraft . He was e...

My two youngest kids have been playing minecraft for quite a long time. For those who are not familiar with minecraft think of a game plat...

In the last couple of weeks I have observed a few classrooms from Kindergarten to middle school using Minecraft  EDU to support  21st cent...

This week I have been thinking of the befits of gaming. It started as Jason initiated a conversation about MinecraftEDU . This was combine...

I am attaching empirical results about the impact of games on learning. This is where empirical evidence trumps "common sense" it...

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 ...

A few weeks ago I found "The Room" from Fireproof Games  for my iPad. It is a beautifully executed puzzle game but that is not t...

As I sift through hundreds of apps for our iPad in the classroom podcast I am occasionally surprised by quality apps. In our TechEDGE ...

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...

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...