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This group is a discussion and resources space related to digital games and learning in South Africa (SA). We encourage dialogue and sharing between researchers, practitioners, game designers and developers, educators and youth as we try to understand and unlock the potential of digital game-based learning in SA

Educational games developed in SA

FREE worksheets, worksheet creators, printables wizard and on-line teaching materials makers with images from Tools for Educators.com. Use these printout generators, game makers, and programs for teachers to make and print teaching resources with pictures or text. They are simple, but beautiful, versatile and powerful. I hope your students (and you) enjoy the resources.

For primary school learners

Kids have always tormented each other. Just think about Lord of the Flies. Now with the help of cyber technologies, sadly, they are doing it more and more online, using mobile phones and interactive games. I spend as much time protecting kids from each other online these days as from cyberpredators.

Should South African schools be introducing videogames into the curriculum? Giving children experience points instead of traditional marks for projects? Intel's marketing manager, Ntombezinhle Modiselle, certainly thinks so - and she's got a growing body of research to back her up.

'Inanimate Alice' tells the story of Alice, a young girl growing up in the first half of the 21st century, and her imaginary digital friend, Brad. Over ten episodes, each a self contained story, we see Alice grow from an eight year old living with her parents in a remote region of Northern China to a talented mid-twenties animator and designer with the biggest games company in the world.