Wii are great teachers!
Fascinating observation from Ewan McIntosh about a school that is being called a pioneer. He says: Games Digest and the BBC reporting on a Birmingham school which is doing "pioneering work" in the use of Sony's PSP gaming console in the classroom - but forbidding kids to play any games on them. What? Talk about missed opportunities: To me, it is a little like telling the office that you're going to have a day out of the office at the beach to plan but making them show up in suits... what is the point? It is going to be expensive to get true high quality educational gaming. It is also going to take something else...cooperation and collaboration. To get the scale needed to be profitable, I think it is going to be have to be multi-country . (I've read costs to develop a console game running between $7 Million and I heard on a recent podcast (sorry I can't find it -- I was at the beach) $25 million.) But, the fact is that true gaming can offer powerful rew...