Brains by Nintendo: What They Know about Learning that We Should

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Presenter: Corrine Syster, Instructional & Information Technology Librarian, Central Pennsylvania College
PowerPoint slides can be downloaded here[1].
PDF of slides can be downloaded here[2].
Thank you to all who attended this session, which was a joint presentation with John Kirriemuir, presenting I Love Nintendo and So Should You.[3]

Description: Nintendo has an amazing talent for creating fantastically fun games that exercise the mind. This presentation will talk about the various educational games offered for the Wii and DS, some are obvious (Brain Age, My Spanish Coach, Big Brain Academy) while some are thinly veiled (Endless Ocean, Professor Layton and the Curious Village, Cooking Mama). This presentation explores the qualities that make games that are both informative and instructive into bestsellers, with the hope that we can take away these traits and integrate them into library programming.

Intended Audiences:

  • Instructional librarians
  • Pretty much any librarian
  • Youth librarians

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  • All types of libraries



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