Tiny Diggers – An iPad Construction Truck Game for Kids Age 2-5

There’s been quite a bit of news the past few weeks about schools trying out educational video games, and I can’t quite figure it out. While using PSPs in school is certainly new, even when I was in elementary school back in the late 80s, we had educational games on the Apple computers. We had Spellicopter, in which you used a helicopter to pick up the letters in a word. I can’t remember the name, but I also recall playing one (in high school, on some version of Windows) in which the player was a student in the school cafeteria and had to pick out a nutritionally balanced meal. Heck, there was even the Carmen Sandiego series.

Certainly most of us who were in school in the late 80s and later had educational video games available to us – if my tiny school where K-12′s entire enrollment was only 700 students had games, bigger schools must have had them too! So why are these educational games suddenly such big news?

Do any of you have fond memories of playing computer games at school during indoor recess or study hall?