Educators Turn To Games For Help

Thanks to Wired News for their article discussing the increasing use of games to educate and simulate in the learning field. The article discusses the fact that "...video games have come under tremendous political pressure in recent years because of an increase in violent and sexual content. But schools soon may be using the technology that powers those games to help teach America's children." It goes on to mention a number of academic initiatives, including MIT's Games-To-Teach project, currently developing titles such as Biohazard, which uses the Unreal Tournament 2003 engine, and "...helps train emergency workers to deal with a cataclysmic attack. To succeed, teams must forge new communication lines while fighting a toxic accident."

Comments

Personal Experience

[kmak]

Mario Teaches Typing taught me typing! And Donkey Kong Math was fun too!

Sex ed?

[Lord_Dweomer]

I can think of a couple of games they could use to teach sex ed......they might be hentai games, but hey, that'd just give a little added education by teaching kids about how tentacles are a part of japanese culture.