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.'"

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Re:Spore for education

[stonecypher]

Creationism isn't tied to Christianity, there are several religions that teach it.

Sorry, no. Creationism is a term that was created recently to describe a political movement by religious people to clothe their Christianity as alternative scientific belief for the explicit purpose of getting it taught under diversity principles in schools. The word does not mean "all forms of religious belief which involve a divine origin viewpoint."

Just because you assume a word to mean something does not make it so. Please don't correct people based on guesses you made from context. Language isn't a "no you're wrong" guessing game.

Creationism isn't just explicitly Christian, it's also explicitly American.