Welcome to Massively Minecraft

You are invited to join Massively Minecraft, a professional community of educators preparing to explore a new game suitable for children as young as 4 years of age, yet expansible enough to still stir the imagination and interaction of late teens and adults. The purpose of this community project is to trial the use of [...]

100 Learning Games Readings

Hat tip to Abhijit Kadle for this epic list of Learning Games. This is an excellent blog called Upside Learning, which also offers a lot of great information about mobile learning. It’s a good example (or at least I think it is) of crafting great product with great ideas. A lot of grey-suits could learn [...]

Enter the failure gap, honour your vomit to identify problems worth solving

I was asked a few days ago about whether students can, or should be able to set their own assessment tasks. It’s easy to think they can – but the number one activity of young people online isn‘t problem solving, it’s information-seeking. They are not alone, most adults want the answers – show me where, [...]

Minecraft 101

Wondering what the Minecraft fuss is all about. Well it’s not just a game, though this video is really cute. It’s all the stuff that shows up around it. The amount of ‘work’ that Notch has created around his game is something that most governments can only dream of. I guess you have to look [...]

Why you can’t love more than 150 people at a time.

John Seeley Brown has been talking recently about a thing called a ‘process network’. He describes them as loosely coupled networks that can come together at a moments notice. Not loosely coupled at the transactional level, but in terms of long term relations – a relational architecture rather than a transactional architecture. They get activated [...]

District You

Welcome to District You, the game of limitless imagination and freedom, where the actions of every player can make a lasting difference. We offer no pre-built environment. Instead, we offer players the opportunity to choose their own direction in any or all of the skills they want to learn in evolving world entirely built by [...]