In episode 10, Giles goes over his plans for 2010, and strategies for how a funded games program can effectively spend its money.
In today's episode, Tom and Giles look at games for the math classroom. They have some you'd expect, plus a couple that I'm willing to bet you haven't heard of. Enjoy!
Tom and Giles revisit the question of using games to strengthen literacy schools. This time around it's Tom's turn to explain what games he uses and how. In Tom's own words, he wanted to "use games to help produce English skills" and this podcast shows you how to do it as well.
In today's episode, Tom and Giles tackle the issue of games that help kids develop their logic. I love their recommendations, but even more interesting (to me) is how well it demonstrates that "non-educational" games can be extremely effective for teaching. Enjoy!
This week's episode features an interview with Bart, a police officer who runs a games program through the AVID program at a high school in Kansas. He loves what he calls Eurogames, but was faced with the problem of dealing with large class sizes. Check it out!