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Summary

Teaching with Games was a year-long project investigating the place of mainstream commercial computer games in the classroom. The project aimed to provide practical and informed evidence of the implications and potential of the use of these games in school, and an informed strategy for future educational development requirements, based upon collaborative discussions between industry and the education community.

Project type and status

Research project: completed

Partners

Electronic Arts
Microsoft
Take-Two
Interactive Software Federation of Europe (ISFE)

Links

Teaching with Games: Final report (1mb pdf)
Teaching with Games: Guidance for educators (337kb pdf)
St Johns Student Research Group report (184kb pdf)
Survey on students' attitudes to games and learning (109kb pdf)
Survey on teachers' attitudes to games and learning (123kb pdf)
Project launch press release (9 August 2005)
Teachers survey press release (13 January 2006)
Students survey press release (13 July 2006)
Final report press release (2 October 2006)
Teaching with Games presentation at BETT 2007 (10-13 January 2007, 605kb pdf)

Online press coverage

10/08/05 - Guardian games blog
10/08/05 - Silicon.com
10/08/05 - BBC
10/08/05 - The Register
10/08/05 - Gamasutra
11/08/05 - Computing
17/08/05 - Computing
13/01/06 - BBC
14/01/06 - Pocket-lint
16/01/06 - play.tm
18/01/06 - eGov Monitor
08/03/06 - Ipsos MORI
17/03/06 - Education Guardian
25/05/06 - Joystiq
25/05/06 - Computing
14/07/06 - eGov Monitor
17/07/06 - BBC
24/07/06 - New Statesman
24/07/06 - Guardian games blog
24/07/06 - Eurogamer
27/07/06 - EFY Times
02/10/06 - Bit-tech.net
02/10/06 - EntertainmentWise
02/10/06 - Next Generation
02/10/06 - Gamasutra
02/10/06 - Kotaku
02/10/06 - BBC
02/10/06 - MCV
03/10/06 - Gameplanet
03/10/06 - PALGN
03/10/06 - Gameinfowire
06/10/06 - eGov Monitor
09/10/06 - PublicTechnology.net
12/12/06 - Education Guardian
02/04/07 - PublicTechnology.net

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