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A simulation game where kids can practise budgeting. HAs a problem solving component too.

"Welcome to The Game Programming Wiki! Here you will find game programming tutorials and source code for a variety of languages and platforms. Also, because this is a wiki, you are encouraged to contribute your knowledge and help the repository grow! If you're lost or confused, please try the help page, or else drop on by the forums and ask for clarification there"

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Maths games - multi-level games to work on mathematical skills.

From Mashable 10 free iPhone Word games, (most of them tasters or lite versions). The list comprises Crostix, Hangman, WordJong, Jumbline, Word Scramble, Moxie, 2 Across, Word Solitaire, Alexia and Words With Friends. The article has a synopsis of the games.

"Bill Murray approaches the teaching-learning system as a game in which students, teachers, and others play various roles. He wonders whether the game itself encourages cheating, and suggests that teachers could restructure the game so that cheating is less rewarding and less likely."

Fascinating essay about assessment and cheating, and how teachers have created this situation.

The arguments for video games as gold standard in Learning

Imagine super fun games that kids can play and learn from at the same time. Imagine if kids were addicted to learning. Here at Airy Labs, we are bringing this vision to life with exciting games for iPhone, iPad, and Android.

Nothing to do with Web 2.0, (they were developed way back in 2001), not a lot to do with traditional education but huge fun nonetheless this collection of flashed based games from Ferry Halim is the perfect way to while away time that should otherwise be devoted to work. See if you can figure out what each of the icons indicates before you play the games.

Maths Games

Free SB Game Hacker Apk v3.2 is one of the exceptional applications which give you to grow control over the recreations you a chance to have introduced.

Good for ESL/EFL and dsylexic learners of any age.\n\n"Each of the mini games features easy to follow instructions, cute and colorful graphics and an easily identifiable learning outcome. The difficulty ramps up with each level completed, and there are five levels for each of the three mini-games. If you've got a child of your own who is just starting to learn how to use numbers - 1 2 3 Sheep! is a fun way to help improve their counting skills."\n\nBacked by an online assessment system...\n

I'm going to be listing my choices for The Best Online Learning Games - 2008 within this post, starting from the twentieth-ranked one and ending with my number-one choice.

What2Learn, the interactive learning solution providing effective educational resources and revision games. The fun way to revise and prepare for success in your GCSEs, SATs and KS3 subjects. NEW! Make your own games - no downloads required.

Create a game or other fun application in just a few clicks with Sharendipity's new free game creation tools! No programming required!

Create free educational games, activities and diagrams in a flash.

Educational Games for Interactive Whiteboards

Customizable flash games for IWB. Would be excellent for reviews. Games such as Jeopardy, Who Wants to be a Millionaire provide great frameworks to use.

Energy Kids is a website produced by the US Energy Information Administration for the purpose of educating students about energy and its many forms. Energy Kids provides a wealth of easily accessible information about energy which students can use to play games, solve riddles, and take quizzes about energy. Some of the games students will find include Energy Sudoku, crossword puzzles, and riddles. Energy Kids also provides students of all ages with ideas and outlines for science fair projects around the energy theme. The science fair projects are available as free PDF downloads.

Via Adrian Camm, a link to The wikipedia game is played by having you begin with a start Wikipedia article, eg banana and a winning article eg "Britney Spears". The task is to get from the start article to the winning article in as few clicks as possible.

"Games like World of Warcraft give players the means to save worlds, and incentive to learn the habits of heroes. What if we could harness this gamer power to solve real-world problems? Jane McGonigal says we can, and explains how."