THE NEW MISSIONMAKER ‘CORE’ TOOL The Missionmaker Core tool has been designed to meet the needs of the new computing curriculum, as well as to promote good game design. It’s intended to be part of teachers’ essential toolkit for the new computing curriculum at KS2 and 3. It is designed to allow a wide range of ability and attainment –
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Researchers from the DARE team, John Potter and Theo Bryer, have won a bid to research and evaluate “Shoot Smart”, a film-making project using Tablet devices, during the summer term, 2014. Shoot Smart is funded by Into Film, the film education charity and involves working alongside partners, Xube Ltd, a film-making company specialising in films in educational settings. The competition
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Ian Livingstone is Visiting Professor at the UCL Institute of Education, working with DARE on game-based learning. Ian co-founded Games Workshop in 1975, launching Dungeons & Dragons in Europe and the Games Workshop retail chain. At Eidos, where he served as Executive Chairman until 2002, he launched major franchises including Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. He co-authored the Next Gen review
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Originally posted on Media literacy, learning and curating:
At the end of last month, at the invitation of Ben Williamson, I presented at the first of the ESRC seminar series called Codeacts in Education at the University of Stirling. This series is about all aspects of learning through code / learning to code. This long-ish post is an experiment to…
DARE is working with the Ministry of Stories to research young people’s creative writing. The MoS is in Hoxton in Hackney, London (the imaginative MoS ‘shop front’ is worth a visit in its own right!). MoS run after school and Saturday writing workshops for any young people who wish to join, as well as bespoke projects with schools. MoS was
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Diane Carr convened an event at the London Knowledge Lab on Monday December 2nd, as part of her AHRC fellowship on games. The day included her own presentation on representations of disability in games, as well as presentations by Helen Kennedy and Tanya Krzywinska. Below you can see the programme. Monday December 2nd, 10 – 2 pm RSVP email Diane Carr
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This new book, by Alison Gazzard who has recently joined DARE and the media group at the Institute of Education, looks at the significance and history of the maze as a central and persistent figure in the design of videogames space. It relates the mazes of today’s digital games to the long histories of maze designs in physical landscapes, exploring
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This was a day event on 1st July at the RSA, presenting innovative ideas about how computer science can connect with the Arts in the context of education. A LINK TO PODCASTS can be found at the end of the full page. Contributors included Ian Livingstone, author of the NESTA Next Gen report; John Naughton, University of Cambridge; Kylie Peppler, University of
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A day seminar on the current state of Arts in Education, at the BFI Southbank, June 21st. The day included the third Harold Rosen lecture, given by Jonothan Neelands, University of Warwick, entitled “Dramatic Futures: why the Arts and Humanities should reclaim the curriculum”. The day featured innovative approaches to arts education in drama, media, art, music and museums and
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MAGiCAL Projects is an enterprise of UCL IOE, based at the UCL Knowledge Lab. It is a combination of R&D, building softwares for creative work in education, and a commercial venture, bringing such solutions to schools and other education sites. It builds on research and development work we have done in the past with Immersive Education, developing the successful games
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