Sandrewmama

Someone on my local list brought this article in Ode Magazine to my
attention http://www.odemagazine.com/currentIssue.php.

I found it interesting and a smart defense for the virtues of video-
gaming! I thought the line about a company that is developing
"educational" video-games for classrooms, was kind of telling and
humorous in a sad way:

...But won�t educational games always lose out to their commercial
equivalents purely focused on entertainment? �That�s not the
competition here,� Bushnell replies. �Educational games are competing
against the boring teacher in the front of the class who is just not
capable of engaging his students.�


Chris in IA
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IAUnschoolers/
http://zamunzo.blogspot.com/




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C Johnson

Thank you. That was a very interesting article.

Chrissie

Sandrewmama <sandrewmama@...> wrote:
Someone on my local list brought this article in Ode Magazine to my
attention http://www.odemagazine.com/currentIssue.php.

I found it interesting and a smart defense for the virtues of video-
gaming! I thought the line about a company that is developing
"educational" video-games for classrooms, was kind of telling and
humorous in a sad way:

...But won’t educational games always lose out to their commercial
equivalents purely focused on entertainment? “That’s not the
competition here,” Bushnell replies. “Educational games are competing
against the boring teacher in the front of the class who is just not
capable of engaging his students.”


Chris in IA
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IAUnschoolers/
http://zamunzo.blogspot.com/




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