Play Games, Be Better Students?
Wired covers the
Education Arcade Symposium:
The conventional wisdom about the video-game industry is that it's all about entertainment. But a group of 350 game designers, educators and government officials think that games can be used as a tool to teach critical thinking, and in the process, improve American education.
Interface guru Brenda Laurel is quoted in the piece:
Instead of relying on schools to teach kids how to use games to learn, libraries equipped with computers and video games may be the place where such learning can happen. Ultimately, she said, new forms of learning are about new ways of thinking. And some game designers are working to help foster that change.
[via
Wired News]
Posted by johndan at May 11, 2004 08:10 PM
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