Sony and classrooms without walls

March 13th, 2007

This looks exciting Sony Computer Entertainment unveiled its new PSP in Education initiative at a special launch event in London yesterday.

The PSP in Education presentation highlighted how the handheld could be used in the classroom to download RSS and listen to audio files, such as poems, plays and foreign language recordings.

The PSP’s photo mode can be used to view and analyse images, while video mode can be used to watch footage of, for example, a chemical reaction.

“I see a situation where class notes or homework assignments can transfer to a PSP… So that when kids go home, they can access the information rather than having to go on the Internet and having to search through many websites,” Maguire said.

Next up on stage was Doug Brown, head of the technologies and future unit at the DfES. “What is becoming quite clear is that games in education has a significant part to play,” he stated.

“A range of activities that are now happening in schools are making good use of games to teach very difficult conceptual topics, and to take children to places where otherwise perhaps a teacher might not be able to take them.”

Education is teetering on a revolution, its up to us to make sure, we give every child the opportunity to learn, but there is much to be done

And while you are at it have a look at the serious games initiative

Watch a video on Gaming in Education

Thanks to David Cushman for the hat tip

And as we say, you don’t come out of a computer game to put up with the sliced white bread that is all to often the average brand experience. That goes for education too.

Why can’t we make education a more fun, engaging place, that is created to better the child not the league tables?

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