Chapter 9: Futurelab

Chapter 9 focused on the issues concerned with gaming. In the chapter in the common objections section, the question of how gaming ties into the curriculum was discussed. The website I explored helped to answer that question by providing results from a year-long research project on the subject matter.  I looked at the Futurelab website, specifically the "Teaching with Games" portion of the site. This "Teaching with Games" was actually a study done by Futurelab that lasted for one year and explored the place of mainstream computer games in the classroom. This website outlines the benefits, complications, and findings of certain games. It also provided a list of games that were used as well as a small review on each one, which I thought was very interesting and useful for the teacher. Overall I think this website is quite informative on the findings of the "Teaching with Games", which in turn provided very informative data and resources for games in the classroom.