Parents Angry Over Educational Videogame

[Ertol]

I believe a very long sigh sums up what everybody here is thinking

 

[Asophetes]

"Fuck education, the school systems trying to feed our children their virtual crack fix!"
I wonder what they'll think when their kids complain that they died of dysentery.

 

[Jettling]

Well, I can't say ne-thing other than what has already been said, yet, i get the strange feeling that these people are demonising video games is to jump onto a, very slow-moving, bandwagon driven by the media and news corporations who find a copy of Halo in a murderer's sock draw and decide that the universe will collapse if such things continue to exist..sorry, where was I? Ah, in order to get attention and make them look like the sole-warriors in a noble cause..my arse they're trying to shoot down schools for their educational ways? Until we give teachers the ability to smack their students (which isn't happening any time soon) again, this is the only way to get most of 'em to hush and learn XD

 

[Double A]

I... uh... but it's educational... and kids are playing it... how do they not get this?

(What game is it anyway?)

I agree with her.

Math Blaster is pretty fun. I still have pleasant flashbacks from that game

Fixed.

 

[Biosophilogical]

They're worried about the gaming addiction? What about at their age (1830's perhaps?), I'm sure they had a generally well loved hobby among their generation. The only real difference is that all the cases of over-reacting children are now internationally televised, and, of course, the old people don't understand technology as much as their parents would have understood throwing a ball. So yeah, I believe this boils down to ignorance and over- exaggerations.

 

[Quazimofo]

I learned how to do certain math things because of video games.

Wrong parents are wrong.


Anyone ever play Math Blaster? That game was awesome.

yeah that was a fun one. coincidentally, playing games such as battalion wars and kingdom hearts (With subtitles) drastically improved my spelling ability. fallout 3 later added on to this, going so far as to increase my reading speed enough that the characters would barely open their mouth before i read their entire dialogue paragraph and skipped to the next one.

videogames aren't educational my ass. tangential learning is the best kind! (hell, i learned a good bit of faux science by reading the ENTIRE mass effect 1 codex, and being as it was not that far fetched, but relied on magic eezo also improved my understanding of the basic concepts behind the tech)