Latest writings

December 9, 2023

Mikko Perälä

Expat children maintain their language skills by gaming

Hear from expat parents about the positive impact of online gaming on their children's native language proficiency. When a child's circle of friends is international, and the lingua franca is English or another dominant language, the language spoken with parents may deteriorate. That's where online gaming can help.

A kid in front of a computer playing a video game online with friends and talking about a quest. Speech bubbles show icons of a map, a mountain, a dragon and a question mark.

Parenting tips

December 5, 2023

Niina Meskus

Game Festival is here again!

Game Festival celebrated the end of semester and brings gamer projects to the limelight. Amazing projects are on display once more. Event is streamed live in Youtube.

A poster of School of Gaming's Game Festival stating the time and the date. A framed image of kids in our Minecraft world.

SOG News

November 21, 2023

Reksi

Balancing Screen Time

There are two types of screen time: passive screen time and active screen time. Both can have either positive or negative effects on children, depending on the content itself, who they share the screen time with, and the purpose of the screen time.

A girl on her room playing with a computer, enjoying high quality screen time.

Parenting tips

June 7, 2023

Niina Meskus

Game Festival ends the School year 2023

School of Gaming celebrates the end of school year by organizing Game Festival for all it's gamers. Everyone get a chance to showcase their projects and best ones received glory and awards. And of course everyone got their picture taken in the famous yellow carpet.

School of Gaming's Game Festivale celebrates gamers and their projects.

SOG News