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Midlands games-based learning project reports improved engagement and skills
Sixteen schools across Wolverhampton that have involved students and teachers in a research project involving Sony PlayStation 3 games consoles using LittleBigPlanet2, the creative adventure game, are already reporting positive feedback.
Presenting his interim findings at the Learning Without Frontiers festival at Olympia, London, Don Passey, senior research fellow with the Department of Educational Research at Lancaster University, said the game players had developed team-working, communication and thinking skills while the "ambassador" students who worked with them felt their team-working leadership and planning skills had improved. The teachers felt the skills they improved most were thinking, team-working, planning and generating ideas.
