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Following my day at the Kent ICT conference yesterday (I’ll write another post about this later), I’ve set up a new ‘Ideas to Inspire‘ presentation… to share games that can be used to enhance learning.

Games to Enhance Learning

Teachers are increasingly using games to develop learning in their classrooms, so this will hopefully be another useful way of sharing our experiences. I’ve started the presentation by adding two games that I heard about yesterday (with a long list of others to add) and as I type this, some wonderful people in my Twitter network are adding their own suggestions.

If you have a game to suggest, please tweet, email or add a comment to this blog post. Thank you.

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