Tag Archives: video games

10 Reasons Why Video Games Are Good For The Soul

Here’s a brief description of ten online articles about how video games have been seen to successfully teach or educate for real life skills. 1 Computer games make maths fun in school. An article from the online UK Guardian newsgroup about how a school in nottinghamshire is developing lesson plans and activities for the wii [...]

10 Online videos to watch

Here’s a brief description of ten online videos for teachers of foreign languages to watch.  All these videos were chosen because they are free, easily accessible, engaging and informative to teachers of a foreign language. 1 The Sims teach German The sims is one of the most commercially successful PC games, notable because of its popularity [...]

People bored by board games? Board games better than computer games?

Loony Hiker (Pat), over at Successful Teaching, recently posted her regret that people don’t play board games any more. I’m not so sure this is true. She also says that playing computer games does not help with interpersonal skills or critical thinking. I completely disagree.