Parents Angry Over Educational Videogame
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Some peoples parents, they just don't understand the fragile workings of that which teachers do.
I myself having had the chance to grow up on some of set educational videogames in school, can agree that, he they work!
The kids do get a feeling for what they are trying to achieve, so yay to educational videogames in school. Different kids learn at different paces, the fact that this parent thinks it will add to an addiction to videogames is just odd.
If you don't want your kid playing video games at home ... don't let him, but if the teachers at school are trying the medium for the benefit of the child in question ... why stop them?
I myself having had the chance to grow up on some of set educational videogames in school, can agree that, he they work!
The kids do get a feeling for what they are trying to achieve, so yay to educational videogames in school. Different kids learn at different paces, the fact that this parent thinks it will add to an addiction to videogames is just odd.
If you don't want your kid playing video games at home ... don't let him, but if the teachers at school are trying the medium for the benefit of the child in question ... why stop them?
Videogames and interactivity in general are the future of education and a couple of repressed old farts can do nothing about it. But it's still infuriating too see so much ignorance out there. I know it's not nice to say it but in an era when we stand to gain so much from progress brought on by technology, old people's opinions shouldn't matter as much as they do to mainstream media. There should be an organized effort to marginalise theres kinds of opinions.
Erm....
Great,now I sound like a fanatic, man ignorant old people really push my buttons.
Erm....
Great,now I sound like a fanatic, man ignorant old people really push my buttons.
Jack Thompson has nothing to do with the article, they're pointing out him and that woman look alike and are just as stupid.MisterColeman said:
Would be good if we actually had a description of the game rather than just "omg some dood said games are bad".Andy Chalk said:
Pretty one sided article, if I'm being totally honest.
Which is mostly why the comments are
"How dumb can parents get" blah blah, Irony; it strikes.
Let's see what we can do to make this story better...
I'm sure we can add "Parents are worried", "Parents heard bad things", "Kids were excited", "End of civilization", "Far cry from the hoops we had to play with" and other things, but the basic thing is that parents are angry about people wanting to help their kids.
Perhaps not angry enough to actually help their kids learn maths the old fashioned way?
Yep, that covers the main points succinctly.Andy Chalk said:
I'm sure we can add "Parents are worried", "Parents heard bad things", "Kids were excited", "End of civilization", "Far cry from the hoops we had to play with" and other things, but the basic thing is that parents are angry about people wanting to help their kids.
Perhaps not angry enough to actually help their kids learn maths the old fashioned way?
There is a video of it on the link Andy gave, it looks like a Crysis Clone where they hunt numbers instead of soldiers.Wizzie said:
Please note that the picture also has the parents holding up a non-educational game noted for questionable morals, rather than the case to the mathematical game in question. When will idiots learn to give at least some merit to the opinions of professional teachers?
