{"id":1859,"date":"2013-04-16T17:52:25","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T16:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/?p=1859"},"modified":"2013-04-16T17:53:58","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T16:53:58","slug":"pacman-teach-maths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/16\/pacman-teach-maths\/","title":{"rendered":"Can PacMan teach Maths?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s the podcast of a rather intriguing panel discussion I participated in at the Mobile Fringe Festival<\/a> earlier this year in Barcelona. Moderated by the indomitable Russell Buckley<\/a> (the big daddy of mobile marketing), I was joined by Vincent Hoogsteder<\/a> (Founder & CEO, Distimo) and\u00a0Alina Vandenberghe<\/a> (Head of Mobile and Gaming, Pearson) discussing how elements of games and, indeed, mobile technology can aid educational demands – not only for the iPad-clad haute vollee of the first world but also in regions where traditional schooling is a lot more challenging.<\/p>\n

I wrote about the topic previously<\/a> and it is one of the areas I take an increasing amount of interest in. Have a listen, let me know what you think.<\/p>\n

I tried to paste a fancy Soundcloud widget but this didn’t work out, so go listen to it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s the podcast of a rather intriguing panel discussion I participated in at the Mobile Fringe Festival earlier this year in Barcelona. Moderated by the indomitable Russell Buckley (the big daddy of mobile marketing), I was joined by Vincent Hoogsteder (Founder & CEO, Distimo) and\u00a0Alina Vandenberghe (Head of Mobile and Gaming, Pearson) discussing how elements […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1232,1197,1199],"tags":[1235,1149,237,391,1233,1236,567,1234],"class_list":["post-1859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-2","category-games-2","category-thoughts","tag-alina-vandenberghe","tag-education","tag-games","tag-mobile","tag-mobile-fringe-festival","tag-pearson","tag-russell-buckley","tag-vincent-hogsteder"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paSwZv-tZ","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1859"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1873,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions\/1873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}