March
2008
Video games? In MY education?1
I was just reading an online article from the BBC news called “Video games stimulate learning” (2002) and the list of video games used in the experiment conducted just fascinate me!
To be honest, I thought the point of video games was to offer a problem that would require a strategic or certain approach to reach a desired goal, so this article doesn’t really surprise me. I feel we are always learning, even if to others the knowledge might just be “recreational.” That’s the glory of humanity: we are constantly obtaining information and trying to solve problems. Even if the problem is “save the princess from an oversized turtle.”
I do agree that whilst certain video games test your strategy skills, just because it encourages thinking doesn’t mean it can easily fit into the curriculum. The teacher would have to be creative if the lesson plan involving a video game was to work, but at least this article shows that lessons can come from anywhere, even in the most unexpected areas.
That being said, I am now daydreaming of using the video game Patapon for a music rhytmn lesson. But that would require about thirty PSPs and I don’t think that would be affordable.
Source: Wikipedia
They are pretty cute, though.
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