Videogames, Learning, And Literacy

Posted by simoniker on Monday July 7, 2003 @07:58PM from the i-kan-spel-gouranga dept.

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to a GameZone.com article interviewing Professor James Paul Gee, the author of a new book advocating videogames as a learning tool. According to Gee, "It dawned on me that good games were learning machines... Many of these [game-contained] principles could be used in schools to get kids to learn things like science, but, too often today schools are returning to skill-and-drill and multiple-choice tests that kill deep learning." He goes on to reference "good learning principles" built into games like System Shock 2, Rise of Nations, and Arcanum, and advocates early gaming for learning: "In my view - and I know it is controversial - kids should be playing games from early on, from three years old, say."

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I call bullshit... by pair-a-noyd · 2003-07-07 20:34 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Video games make kids fat and LAZY..
They learn nothing. And don't give me that hand eye coordination crap either. A good game of baseball does the trick.

As a parent I'm here to tell you that you can't blow that sunshine up my ass.

I see what it does to kids. It rots the brain and make them LAZY...

Press alt-F4 now and try again.