The Consolarium’s work in using the Nintendo DS in the classroom has been lucky enough to garner a lot of media recognition this week. This really came about as a result of our invitation to Stephen Heppell’s ‘Be Very Afraid’ event and also our invitation frm ELSPA to present our work at the London Games Festival.

First up we have a video clip from BBC Breakfast on Tuesday morning. The focus of the clip was the London Games Festival and in particular the Be Very Afraid event but the background images used were of the boys from St Columba’s playing the game with their Head Teacher, Mrs Andrews, and me hovering in the background grabbing a DS or two to get other people started using it.

We then found out that a computer games based website called Spong had taken great interest in what we did and thery posted an article on their site. This was followed up by a lead piece in today’s TESS. The journalist that I spoke to was very interested in what happened and he even followed it up further than we did by contacting one of the boy’s mums to ask her what she thought about the project. I am pleased to say that Mrs McPherson was delighted with how this experience has helped her son.

Last thing to report in this post is that BBC Education Online have just published an article about the DS project.
There has been a great deal of genuine positive interest about this story and we are really delighted that this story about the possible benefits of games as learning tools has been received in the spirit that it has. We hope to continue sharing many of the other positive stories that are happening with our local authority partners over the coming months.

Categories: Be Very Afraid, Dundee City, Nintendo