What do we know ?

• Adjusting behaviour
• Engagement or alienation?
• Outside the classroom - value of fieldwork
• Liberation from the constraints of the real world - virtual environment replicating impossible environments
• The harder the challenge the better (levels)
• Gaming = play = enjoyment
• Group interaction potential
• Visual / technical quality important (or not)
• Gender biased? (Tamagotchi)
• Social attitudes (English?) devalue creativity and games
• Competitive (power gaining) versus collaborative

What more do we need to know ?

• How do we know that gaming will bring "better" learning? What is "better" learning?
• How to balance children's "better" with adults' "better"
• Does playing games develop a creativity that is transferable?

What do we need to do/can do about it?

• Diminish the distinction between learning and gaming