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Internship this summer at IOP: Ice cream and Games
Institute of Play is seeking game enthusiasts who can commit a little or a lot of time during this summer to help us work on building a game database. Your tasks would be to play as many games as you want as much as you want inside or outside the office. School credit and ice cream will be offered. Interested? Contact - chloe@instituteofplay.org
Students Want More Use of Gaming Technology in Schools
Featured article on Converge Online -
"Project Tomorrow's fifth annual Speak Up Survey -- which addresses the attitudes and opinions of K-12 students, teachers, parents and school administrators toward the use of technology in education -- reveals this year that online or electronic gaming is one of the technologies that students use most frequently, and that educational gaming is one of the emerging technologies that students would most like to see implemented in their schools." Read full article.
Kids Who Don't Play Video Games Are At Risk
In this video, Grand Theft Childhood authors Lawrence Kutner and Cheryl Olson talk about their research and findings.
