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Games Better Than Books?
cellullama writes "Some of the leading video-game researchers are saying that games are better for teaching than textbooks. Three University of Wisconsin professors just said schools and corporate trainers should learn something from Halo 2 and Half-life. My workplace is already doing this (but don't tell my boss.)"
... now where's my shotgun?
Screw you all! I'm off to the pub
Half Life 2 could teach newtonian physics really well. If they just let you pick up creatures and slam them against walls....
"Three University of Wisconsin professors just said schools and corporate trainers should learn something from Halo 2 and Half-life" So they want a 3 year delay before new learning material comes out... but hey, the graphics are great!
History based strategy games like Rome Total War, have taught me all I know about Roman/Greek history - Ok its not much, but previously I cared not to know, now I do... pitty games cant learn me to spell...
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"we live in a post-ideological world..." - Billy Bragg.
"You can use Neverwinter Nights as an application development environment"
Indeed, my half-elf character class is "Application Developer". He was known for his programming prowess in all of Neverwinter, until his job got oursourced to dwarves in Waterdeep. Then he went all ballistic with a bow and arrow and has been chaotic evil ever since. It's sad.
"Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it." -- Linus Torvalds
What do you want to do?
.... etc
>Look
You see your manager sitting opposite you, she is holding a sheaf of papers
>Examine papers
You can't do that.
>West
You bump into a filing cabinet. You cannot go that way
>I
You are carrying:
A PostgreSQL manual
A chewed blue pen (full)
A cup of black coffee
An NTK T-Shirt (worn)
A scarred Battle axe.
>Use Axe
This game taught me so many things like don't forget to remove your condom before going outside or the cops will arrest you for indecent exposure.
Sample this!
That game taught me that if I sucked... I would die.
I guess the Romans sux0r3d.
The price is always right if someone else is paying.
You fool, this is a place of extremes. Schools will only teach video games. Microsoft will see this and conquer the market, and Bill Gates will become King of the Universe. The only hope is to Open Source all video games!!
Take your moderate level-headed viewpoint somewhere else.
Nethack?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
I'm gang banging at an 8th grade level!