Schuyler Waynforth

The Guardian had an article in this morning about how London
University's Institute for Education has found computer/video games
to be good educational tools for children. Here's the site
http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,5500,1336802,00.html
I always enjoy when research backs my point of view. Even if it
didn't help me to make it.

Cheers.
Schuyler

Schuyler Waynforth

I really liked the end bit:

The notion of computer games as a potential teaching tool was
yesterday welcomed as worthy of further consideration by John
Dunford, general secretary of the Secondary Heads Association.

"Potentially this has a lot to offer in making lessons interesting,"
Dr Dunford said. "As a maths teacher, I used games including darts to
teach multiplication and subtraction - we didn't actually play, but
we used the idea of points."

He did not play computer games himself, Dr Dunford admitted, "but I
can see they use a logical thought process."


Schuyler

--- In [email protected], "Schuyler Waynforth"
<s.waynforth@b...> wrote:
>
> The Guardian had an article in this morning about how London
> University's Institute for Education has found computer/video games
> to be good educational tools for children. Here's the site
> http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,5500,1336802,00.html
> I always enjoy when research backs my point of view. Even if it
> didn't help me to make it.
>
> Cheers.
> Schuyler