Question of the Day, August 24, 2010
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A good teacher can use almost every game to teach something. But if i had too choose one game would be the old Silkroad. First students could that to deal with deception and how human nature tends more to be hostile and destructive and without the basic rules of society is every man for its own. Second it could be use as a bad example of mmo design, the thing was full of botters, hackers, griefers, etc. etc.
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Ooops....it's not the legend thread. Never mind. Carry on.
[sub]Bookworm adventures would be good though. [/sub]
Ooops....it's not the legend thread. Never mind. Carry on.
[sub]Bookworm adventures would be good though. [/sub]
I'd say, Mario for preschool. When you're young enough, pretty much any sort of visual stimulation will make you smarter. Once the kids are old enough to solve problems, I'd do something like Braid.
If you're going to do a lesson about a videogame in school, then you have to know what you're trying to use this game to teach. If we're teaching proper coding, then I have no idea, so game with good coding. If we're taking a look at game design, then one can safely assume people in this class have played a Mario game or at least a similar platformer, in which case you be best taking a look at games taht are hard to classify in terms of genre, like Killer 7. Someone mentioned Bioshock for a politics class, but I don't think it would get across Rand's philosophies as well as say, The Fountainhead, or Atlas Shrugged.
Games are a useful method for conveying a learning experience, but we have to know what's trying to be conveyed first. I can get someone to read Watchmen as their very first comic or watch Citizen Kane as their first movie, but they're not exactly going to appreciate the nuances of either unless they have some background knowledge on the medium.
Games are a useful method for conveying a learning experience, but we have to know what's trying to be conveyed first. I can get someone to read Watchmen as their very first comic or watch Citizen Kane as their first movie, but they're not exactly going to appreciate the nuances of either unless they have some background knowledge on the medium.
I'll give my vote to this contraption for the Wii (even tho i don't own one).
http://medgadget.com/archives/2010/05/games_for_health_2010_disneyesque_laparoscopy_trainer_to_train_our_surgeons_of_tomorrow_today.html
I know the founder of the gaming company and their ideas are a great addition towards the gaming industry. Combining games with a level of seriousness is what we need most if we'd ever consider implementing games into our standard educational system.
Even tho i am a great fan of both the Fallout universe and Braid, simply gaming isn't enough.
Keeping it fun while learning something at the same time is what we should aim for, before all the new generations do is be artistic for the sake of fun.
Fun won't get us doctors, fun won't get us farmers, yet we need to encourage the new generations to actually see the fun of important work that is needed to keep society up and running.
http://medgadget.com/archives/2010/05/games_for_health_2010_disneyesque_laparoscopy_trainer_to_train_our_surgeons_of_tomorrow_today.html
I know the founder of the gaming company and their ideas are a great addition towards the gaming industry. Combining games with a level of seriousness is what we need most if we'd ever consider implementing games into our standard educational system.
Even tho i am a great fan of both the Fallout universe and Braid, simply gaming isn't enough.
Keeping it fun while learning something at the same time is what we should aim for, before all the new generations do is be artistic for the sake of fun.
Fun won't get us doctors, fun won't get us farmers, yet we need to encourage the new generations to actually see the fun of important work that is needed to keep society up and running.
A real time strategy game. Something which teaches you to manage your resources and to make the right decisions to defeat your enemy can be migrate over to real life.
...Somehow. I'll leave that question to the people designing the course.
...Somehow. I'll leave that question to the people designing the course.
I voted for mario,since nothing really made sense,
Fallout is just shootin'
Braid is just Tiem Travlin'
Mario is just Jumpin' (physics mebbe?)
GTA is just Stealin'
But now i'm thinking of Garry's Mod for like an art class.
EDIT:Alot of people said Bioshock,but that game scares me to death,so if they taught that,i'd be at the back of the room inside a desk,quivering.
Fallout is just shootin'
Braid is just Tiem Travlin'
Mario is just Jumpin' (physics mebbe?)
GTA is just Stealin'
But now i'm thinking of Garry's Mod for like an art class.
EDIT:Alot of people said Bioshock,but that game scares me to death,so if they taught that,i'd be at the back of the room inside a desk,quivering.
