Spotlight on Digital Media And Learning

1.6.10 | A School Library Journal story on Global Kids opens with a great play on the “If you teach a man to fish ...” story.

Lauren Barack writes:

Give a kid a joystick, and she’s occupied for a day. Teach her how to create her own video game, and she’s a learner for life. That’s the goal of Global Kids and its games-based educational training sessions, which the New York-based nonprofit kicked off in early December 2009.

Increasingly, educators see game design as a gateway to other disciplines, and the literacy skills developed through creating video games can enhance the learning process overall. That’s prompted Global Kids to sponsor game-design training at various institutions, including branches of the New York Public Library. Now, the organization is opening its classes to anyone who works with children, so individuals can get up to speed on using game development in an educational setting.

Continue reading here. Visit GlobalKids.org to learn more about the organization’s ongoing training and services.