Experience cultural and social subjects through game mechanics.
Within the field of education there is an increasing demand for games and simulations as creative and playful use of game technology prove to be a useful tool for classroom purposes.
(Computer) games stimulate fantasy curiosity and are challenging at the same time. Digital games seem to be excellent tools for facilitating and supporting situated learning. This unbinding of knowledge from a specific context fosters its transfer to new problems and new domains. Additionally children’s attitude towards computer games is the very attitude we would like all our learners to have. Therefore it makes sense to try to merge location based learning content and the motivation of games. Furthermore the element of collaborative play greatly contributes to the social skills of the students. Additionally games appear to be a useful tool to enhance students’ insight into difficult procedures that would otherwise be very difficult to understand. Therefore Creative Learning Lab has chosen to make Playful Learning one of its domains of expertise.