The Siren Project

What’s in a game? 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…

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/