edutainment
News
5:00PM David Wildgoose | Ubisoft has just announced a new DS game. It’s called Bindi Presents Big Ocean Adventures. More »
Bindi Irwin Game Has Bad Taste Potential
5:00PM David Wildgoose | Ubisoft has just announced a new DS game. It’s called Bindi Presents Big Ocean Adventures. More » 
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DreamBox Succeeds At Tricking Kids Into Learning Math
10:40AM AJ Glasser | Seven months ago, DreamBox Learning launched its math-based edutainment site for kids between kindergarten and second grade. Today, it’s making virtual headlines with success stories. More »
Features
Nintenducation – A New Take On Edutainment
4:00AM AJ Glasser | It’s a great time to be in primary and high school, if you live in Japan or Great Britain. Several dozen schools in both countries are putting Nintendo DSs in K-12 classes. More »
News
DreamBox Tricks Kids Into Learning Math
11:40AM AJ Glasser | I have to hand it to this little web start-up company: it’s a gutsy strategy to deceive schoolchildren with a game called “DreamBox Learning K-2 Math.” I’d have thought Math Blaster was subtler edutainment. More »
Wii Music Coming to Classrooms
1:00AM Brian Crecente | Nintendo is teaming with The National Association for Music Education to get the Wii and Wii Music into schools, the two announced today. More »
Nintendo: Children Afraid Of Math, Math Trainer Can Help
1:40AM Mike Fahey | A survey conducted on behalf of Nintendo to help market Personal Trainer: Math for the DS finds that one in five children believe they’re more likely to become famous than excel at math. More »
Urine The Video Game: Clicking And Dragging To A Healthy Tinkle
6:20AM Brian Crecente | From the makers of Gas Attack, a pinball machine that teaches about flatulence, comes Urine the video game. More »
Culture
Play Pinball, Learn About Farts
7:00AM Brian Crecente | I’ve seen plenty of edumacational games and I’m always delighted to explore how they surreptitiously teach people as they play a game. But this is the first time I’ve played a edu-pinball game. More »
Outgrowing Games: The Rebuttal and Challenge
7:00AM Maggie Greene | A few weeks ago, designer Brice Morrison talked about how a game designer outgrew games; since kicking off a flurry of discussion, he’s returned to GameSetWatch with some in-depth answers to common questions and a challenge. More »
