Technologies for learning

Mark Wilson is Executive Headteacher at Fairlawn, Haseltine and Kilmorie Primary Schools, Lewisham, South London.
Mark is ex-Headteacher at Robin Hood Primary School, Leeds.

Sunday

Creativity: Fun Stuff

Children are natural learners naturally drawn to games.  Play forms a key part of every child's learning experience.  The case for games in education, then, is made....
Switchzoo
Create your very own nonsense animals.
http://switchzoo.com/

Benetton Play
There are a number of interesting and engaging activities on this site, including FlipBook
http://www.benettonplay.com/toybox.php

Playnormous
Health and wellbeing games at this site
http://www.playnormous.com/

Creating bespoke computer games that address specific learning needs is undoubtedly a technology tool of the twenty first century.  This facility really does allow for personalised learning in a meaningful sense of the phrase.  Content Generator allows you to create your own learning games in Flash.  Some of the applications are free, others are paid for.
http://www.contentgenerator.net/

Hot Potatoes includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises . Hot Potatoes is freeware. It is not open-source.
http://www.hotpot.uvic.ca/

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