Julie Bogart

Someone mentioned something about the value of computer
games a few threads ago. I have this quote sent to me from a
student that made me crack up.

"The most explicit level of learning that takes place as one plays
a video or computer game is that one is learning how to do
something. As one plays one learns, gradually or quickly, the
moves of the game – how the various characters, pieces, or
anything else operate and what you can make them do. One
learns how to drag tiles to build up a virtual city or theme park.
One learns how to virtually fight and protect oneself. One learns
how to train a creature and make it evolve. And of course one
learns the physical manipulations of the controllers involved in
doing all this. "
By Marc Prensky 2002 author of Digital Game-Based Learning
(McGraw-Hill) and founder and CEO of Games2Train

I love that this quote validates the value of computer gaming as
having merit *in and of itself* rather than always having to say
that computer gaming is only of value as it relates to other *more
esteemed* activities.

Julie B