Wordi - Game based learning for students

Wordia is a free games-based learning platform - built on the foundations of a dictionary - that blends word-based learning games with interactive video vocabulary.

Wordia encourages students to learn through play - building subject ‘Word Banks’ as they compete with classmates and other schools in a fun, competition-led, learning environment.

The Wordia team is building a way for educators to measure a student’s progress and performance through games-based learning - and we’re busy enhancing the competition experience through Classroom, School and District leader boards.

Access wordia here.

Test your typing skills with Type Racer

TypeRacer

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Put your typing skills to the test with TypeRacer, which pits you against other players for the chance to win money, fame, women, and a slot on TypeRacer's leaderboard! (You actually get only one of those.)

Very Addictive Logic Game: Sugar, Sugar

This is a really addictive logic game from maths playground your students will love much like the iPhone game, Where's the water? It involves creating a series of paths for sugar to flow into cups. Incredibly simple but quite addictive. I hope you enjoy it. Access it here.

Videogames that promote learning

The Education Arcade explores games that promote learning through authentic and engaging play. TEA’s research and development projects focus both on the learning that naturally occurs in popular commercial games, and on the design of games that more vigorously address the educational needs of players. Their mission is to demonstrate the social, cultural, and educational potentials of videogames by initiating new game development projects, coordinating interdisciplinary research efforts, and informing public conversations about the broader and sometimes unexpected uses of this emerging art form in education.

Education Arcade projects have touched on mathematics, science, history, literacy, and language learning, and have been tailored to a wide range of ages. They have been designed for personal computers, handheld devices and on-line delivery.

Access the Education Arcade here.

Very Addictive Logic Game: Sugar, Sugar

This is a really addictive logic game from maths playground  your students will love much like the iPhone game, Where's the water? It involves creating a series of paths for sugar to flow into cups.  Incredibly simple but quite addictive.  I hope you enjoy it.  Access it here.

Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world

Powder Toy for Mac

We get loads of visitors stop by for the PC version of "Powder Toy" The Powder Toy is a desktop version of the classic 'falling sand' physics sandbox game, it simulates air pressure and velocity as well as heat!

But we often forget to put up the latest version of Powder Toy for Mac.  So here it is.

Funbrain Learning Arcade Games

Every student has surely come across funbrain before and played many of their great literacy and maths games.  What most people don't know is there is a speciifc math's arcade and a reading arcade full of great games.  Some of the classics from Funbrain are math baseball, the plural girls, proton don and grammar gorillas.  Enjoy