The Edinburgh Interactive Film Festival has announced the screening of a new film highlighting the place commercial games technology has in education.
Entitled ‘Gaming in Education,’ the film shows how educationalists use off the shelf Nintendo, Wii and Playstation3s to enrich students’ experience. The film also urges software developers to ‘continue as they are’ rather than create new, education specific technology.
Another session called 'Too Cool For School’ attempts to demonstrate how developers aiming for the education market produce less exciting and stimulating – and therefore less beneficial – material than those designing for the wider commercial market.
Find out more at http://www.edinburghinteractivefestival.com/.
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Date Published: August 08, 2008
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