[Year 12 Its] Teacher's hi-tech success story

[Tony Forster]

Margaret Meijers has just been named as Australian Teacher of the Year for 
her work teaching game programming to school students. Margaret uses 
Gamemaker and Klik&Play. Interviewed on morning TV, she listed problem 
solving, planning, mathematics and literacy as areas of benefit. 
Congratulations Margaret!

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From: "Tony Forster" <forster at ozonline.com.au>
To: "Year 12 Information Technology Systems Teachers' Mailing List" 
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Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2006 11:21 AM
Subject: [Year 12 Its] Teacher's hi-tech success story


> USING computer games as an educational tool has won international 
> recognition for Tasmanian teacher Margaret Meijers.
>
> Mrs Meijers is one of two Australian recipients of the Microsoft 
> Innovative Teacher Award, which includes an invitation to visit the 
> "School of the Future" in the United States.
> The use of computer games to develop learning skills in her New Town High 
> School students was commended by Vincent Quah, Asia-Pacific regional 
> director of software company Microsoft's Partners in Learning program.
>
> For six years, students in her classes have been using computer technology 
> to develop a variety of games from simple mazes to complex, multi-level 
> challenges.
>
> http://www.themercury.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,18185383%255E3462,00.html
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