Videogame+research+Project

This year I received funding from the Department of Education's Innovative learning wing called '[|Knowledge Bank]' to participate in a research project focussing on the positive aspects of video games in education.

This will allow my grade 5/6 class a great opportunity to participate in a 10 week trial in which we will be utilising videogames 'in the classroom'. During literacy and maths sessions. Yes you heard that right we will be playing videogames during school time...

I have had a longheld belief that video games offer a higher level opportuinty for thinking and learning than they recieve credit for and in many cases far greater than that of traditional texts such as books and film.

As a disclaimer to this I can assure parents all video games used over the trial period will be of relevent age classification and will not contain violent and / or inappropriate content and furthermore all games will be aimed at improving numeracy and literacy. .