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New York's Video-Game-Based Public School
An anonymous reader writes "In Manhattan this fall, a batch of lucky sixth-graders will start at Quest To Learn, the first public school in the US with a curriculum built around playing games. They'll play Spore and Civilization, board games such as Settlers of Catan, and learn 3D modeling in Maya and Google Earth as well. Each semester concludes with a two-week 'Boss Level.'"
What they will get is the Ancient Egyptians made nuclear weapons. Sheep can be traded for Bricks, The success of evolution is based on the intelligence of the designer, with the attempt to zoom into the beaches in Brazil. Well I guess that is as good as american Education gets. You not really raising the bar. But the kids get the same education and have fun at it.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
So who are you - Gary Glitter or Phillip Garrido?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
The only thing Spore can teach someone is terrible game design.
Let me be the first to say that this sounds awesome, and I hav
Yo explosivejared, I'm really happy for you, I'll let you finish but Anonymous Coward had one of the best first posts of all time. OF ALL TIME.
I agree though that it's a rather satirical implementation, the question is just whether this can actually add something to biology classes.
Absolutely, in much the same way Beavis and Butthead taught me good morals and common sense!
"Most people, I think, don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?"
"Good morning class, today's topic is the evolution of European imperialism. Please load up King's Quest I, V, and VI."
You mean he did actually read his dad's Playboys for the articles?