Games in Education research

Epistemic Games is a company of researchers and proffesors dedicated to the future of using video gamews in education. I have been looking at alot of texts from Kurst Squire and David Williamson Shaffer. Both of these have written many articles and books about games being used as an teaching instrument. Examples given are games like Civilisation or Railway tycoon, they even talk about strategic shooters such as ghost recon as being beneficial to learning by offering a different set of skills that will ultimately help you in future life. I agree with thier views on alot of things however they speak more about how games can help with basic learning and not nessecarilly specific learning in school which is what I am looking into to. However I am sure the ideas of learning from a game and using a game to teach certain skills are quite similar.

Video games in Education Research

http://www.gaia3d.co.uk/

Gaia is a company I noticed that specialises in 3d for education allowing schools to project 3d images of say wter formations for geography etc. It is an interesting concept but like I have been studying in creative practice 3d id very vimited due to its 3d glasses required. It is both expensive but more than anything it socially restrictive. Therefore I can’t see 3d combining with any sort of games were they introduced to education fully.