A Maori computer game design workshop last week in Otago, New Zealand looked to advance the case for the educational value of games!
One of the organizers, Mark Crook, who is an Otago Polytechnic information technology lecturer said that among other tasks, the two-day workshop assessed the value of computer games as an educational tool.
The workshop was a pilot for a diploma in iwi digital practice that will be launched at the polytechnic later this year.
The 14 students involved were briefed on the history of Maori habitation there and took some digital images to use on day two.
They spent the second day at the polytechnic in Dunedin working on a computer-simulation of the peninsula, building a game environment to map the pre-European Maori lifestyle.
Many students who participated couldn%u2019t help but get impressed with the novelty. They said that it was a good interactive learning device.
Read more in The Otago Daily Times
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