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Games Better Than Books?

Posted by michael on from the precision-motor-control dept.

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.)"

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  1. I learned everything I know from Doom... by Atrax · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... now where's my shotgun?

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    1. Re:I learned everything I know from Doom... by BakaHoushi · · Score: 2, Funny

      I learned everything about WWII from Command and Conquer: Red Alert. You know, where Einstein goes back in time and kills Hitler, so Stalin comes to power and the Allies use temporal weaponry to beat the Soviet nukes? This is real edumacashunal stuff!

  2. Half Life by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Half Life 2 could teach newtonian physics really well. If they just let you pick up creatures and slam them against walls....

  3. Neverwinter Nights is awesome by Xpilot · · Score: 4, Funny

    "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.

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  4. You find yourself in a yearly appraisal... by Angostura · · Score: 4, Funny

    What do you want to do?

    >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 .... etc

  5. Total War... by HerculesMO · · Score: 2, Funny

    That game taught me that if I sucked... I would die.

    I guess the Romans sux0r3d.

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  6. Re:Just a lot of f****** nonsense by maxwell+demon · · Score: 3, Funny
    Please! Deep thinking is about abstract thought. There is nothing more abstract than funny little symbols on a page that you have to assemble into meaning.

    Nethack?
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