East Midlands Games for Learning

There are many more reasons to use mobile technology in the classroom than there are those that ‘exist’ for not using it. I use mobile technology and will continue doing so, the children in my class also use my mobile tech as it quite literally ‘puts learning into their hands’. There are many apps available [...]

Epic Citadel is a free app available for the iPhone and iPad but even if you don’t have either you can still use the following resources for great teaching and learning in the classroom. Background Back in September last year I wrote this post about my thoughts on using Epic Citadel for classroom teaching and learning [...]

It’s one thing using a Nintendo Wii in the comfort of your own home, where you can jump wildly when you beat your current Mario Kart course record or jog frantically on the spot to improve your best time on the Wii Fit. It’s altogether different when you think ‘ I want to use this [...]

I received the following post from David Gilmour (teacher and part of East Lothian’s Education ICT Team)as a comment on the previous EMGFL blog site and I thought I would share it here.

Here’s Ewan McIntosh at Games Based Learning 2010.

Here is a presentation by Nic Hughes and Dawn Hallybone at ‘ Games Based Learning 2010′

Trinity Lower School in Northamptonshire are using the Nintendo Wii  in school and are recording and sharing their explorations via a dedicated blog.

Mobile phones are practically banned from schools. Teachers have them so that they can be contacted in an emergency but must have them switched to silent during class times. How many teachers use their mobile as a teaching and learning device? Do you? Have you used your mobile phone or asked the class to use [...]

The children in our classrooms today are surrounded by technology that is not just entertaining to use but also educational too.

How can we best start making use of these as teaching and learning tools?

EMGFL is looking for contributors to the site, teachers who wish to tell others how they use games for learning, stories about what has worked well in your classroom and what hasn’t and any resources you have created that others could benefit from. This site’s purpose is to gather great ideas and resources from across [...]