The Siren Project

24/11/2014

Siren featured in the HORIZON: the EU Research & Innovation magazine (aka Research*eu) - November 2014 issue

09/07/2014

A group of researchers from the newly inaugurated Institute for Digital Games at the University of Malta are working hard to integrate video games into the educational scenario… and it seems as though they’ve got the authorities on their side. Teodor Reljic speaks to Rilla Khaled and Giorgios N. Yan…

25/06/2014

How do you help school children handle fights, bullying, and other conflict properly? You build a game, of course, and you let children take on different roles in a village. But how does that lead to resolving conflicts? Ashley Davis met researchers Prof. Rilla Khaled and Prof. Georgios N. Yannakakis to find out more

http://www.um.edu.mt/think/why-so-serious/

14/02/2014

13/02/2014

The third volume of the annual proceedings for the Games+Learning+Society (GLS) is available at http://press.etc.cmu.edu/content/gls-90-conference-proceedings

This is the third volume of the annual proceedings for the Games+Learning+Society (GLS). The GLS conference is a premier event for those from both academia and industry interested in videogames and learning. The GLS conference is one of the few destinations where the people who create high-quality d...

10/02/2014

There’s a way to put your video game habit to work for a good cause: citizen science.

09/12/2013

'My Dream Theatre' literally puts you in the director's seat: four virtual actors make up a theatre company and you have to assign roles to each of them, based on their preferences. But, as is usually the case in real life, you can't keep everyone happy! Use one of the four conflict management strategies at your disposal to minimise negative emotions and keep everyone on stage for the final performance.

21/11/2013

A Massively Multi-Parent List of 149+ Great Apps/Games for Kids and Families :-)

09/11/2013

http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/benoit-paille-school-bullying

French-Canadian photographer Benoit Paillé captures the glistening, reflective eyes of children looking across a room at a wall displaying their own drawings…

07/11/2013

Siren @ ICT2013 , Vilnius, Lithuania

06/11/2013

The Siren Project takes centre stage at the ICT Event 2013

Next generation learning and teaching, social games for conflict resolution as well as innovative multistakeholder financial schemes - such is the selection for learning projects at the ICT in Vilnius, starting this Wendesday. This careful selection reflects major trends in Opening Up Education - le...