i continue to talk about the role of games in education, in this seventy-seventh episode of ventriloquy.
i was especially excited to learn about 2065 - a custom-designed and locally-developed game being used by students in Chile to explore identity-construction and team-building.
over time, it will be really interesting to compare 2065 with the game that my colleagues and i at the Learning Sciences Lab of Singapore's National Institute of Education (NIE) are developing. i think it would be especially revealing to investigate the similarities and differences from the perspective of two home-grown educational games from opposite sides of the Pacific, and the respective ecologies which have given rise to them and which contextualise their use.
this 4.1 MB download represents some very preliminary thinking in this regard, and i might develop these thoughts further next Monday the 27th, when i've been invited to be a member of a panel jointly hosted by the National Library Board and the International Geographical Union regional network on Southeast Asia, Australasia and the Southwest Pacific (SEAASWP). The network is coordinated by Associate Professor Phil Hirsch of the University of Sydney - he'll be my fellow panelist, together with Professor Doracie Nantes of the University of the Philippines Diliman and Dr Georgina Numbasa of the University of Papua New Guinea. Chairing the session will be my colleague at the NIE - Professor Ooi Giok Ling.
if you'd like to attend, the discussion starts at 4 pm at the Possibility Room, which is on Level 5 of the National Library building.
the seminar is a prelude of sorts to the conference of the Southeast Asian Geography Association (SEAGA), which takes place later that week. My friend and fellow teacher - William Yeo - and i will be presenting a paper, on the 29th, on a project in which we used podcasts as a means of alternative assessment in geography education, at the Nanyang Junior College earlier this year. It should be fun :-)
Show notes:
- Video Games Live
- London Games Festival
- Hierarchies of need (Occidental and Oriental)
- The Singapore Symphony Orchestra
- 'Invention 2065, exploring complementary forms to educate' dated 20 Oct 06, translated from Spanish and originally posted at Educandonos.cl
- SEAASWP
- the SEAGA conference 2006
