movies and educational games
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In a message dated 8/16/02 3:54:10 PM, nedvare@... writes:
<< There are no "Fun Games" if they're designed to be "educational"
When prisons show movies, it's still prison. >>
This doesn't flow right.
"Top Hat" is the same movie whether it's watched by John on Death Row in The
Green Mile or by Holly Dodd in her living room when she chose it herself at
Hollywod Video.
If there is a game which was designed to be educational and it is assigned in
a school to school children, their experience of that game will be entirely
different from Holly's if she chooses the same game from our game collection
and plays it because she wants to.
It's not the game, it's the intent of the person who assigns the playing of
the game.
And if it wasn't assigned, but chosen, how does that touch on school or
prison or education?
Sandra
<< There are no "Fun Games" if they're designed to be "educational"
When prisons show movies, it's still prison. >>
This doesn't flow right.
"Top Hat" is the same movie whether it's watched by John on Death Row in The
Green Mile or by Holly Dodd in her living room when she chose it herself at
Hollywod Video.
If there is a game which was designed to be educational and it is assigned in
a school to school children, their experience of that game will be entirely
different from Holly's if she chooses the same game from our game collection
and plays it because she wants to.
It's not the game, it's the intent of the person who assigns the playing of
the game.
And if it wasn't assigned, but chosen, how does that touch on school or
prison or education?
Sandra
Bill
> It's not the game, it's the intent of the person who assigns the playingAND the experience (communicated or not communicated) of the person playing
> of the game.
it.
:-) Diane