Gaming In the Classroom

The Guardian Online has a story describing one reporter's goal to see what role games can play in educational situations. Essentially, he found games being used in many places. The major frustration, in fact, with the games was that they couldn't be used to put forward an educator's goals as often as they would have liked. From the article: "As he says, Sim City has its biases. 'It is geared to traffic and subways. But if it was open source, you could build a model more geared to pedestrians and sidewalks, the urban model advanced by Jane Jacobs, and teach her theories with it.'"

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Open Source Sim City?

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It will never work!