School made fun: New York public school to teach children with video games |
Ó
Ever wished playing video games was allowed in school? No need to keep it secret; we know that even the do-gooder type of gamers fantasize about learning math with Mario or flora with Aeris. Fortunately for the young, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation dished out some dough to fund a New York City public school planning to use games for teaching literacy and other skills.The school, accepting students from grades 6 through 12, is expected to open its doors come fall 2009. For now, nonprofit organizations Gamelab Institute of Play, together with New Visions for Public Schools will be working on how to make an educational institution incorporating “game design and game-inspired methods." Game designers, literacy experts, and educators will help out to make sure that the system will be effective. Curriculum will also be made to reach NYC graduation standards.
New Visions president Robert Hughes mentioned that they want to “re-imagine the traditional school from top to bottom.” He also hopes that "gaming literacy" can produce competent children that will be successful in college and their future careers. Playing MGS games to become effective politicians sounds pretty good.
Gamelab Institute of Play executive director Katie Salen wants the school to offer a learning experience similar to the process of making, sharing, and playing games. "All players in the school – teachers, students, parents and administrators – will be empowered to innovate using 21st century literacies that are native to games and design,” she said. Parents encouraging you to be a gamer while studying - it can't get any better.
According to her, learning from game design's perspective means:
to think about the world as a set of in interconnected systems that can be affected or changed through action and choice, the ability to navigate complex information networks, the power to build worlds and tell stories, to see collaboration in competition, and communicate across diverse social spaces.
Sounds too brainy? Learning how to make friends by getting your hands on The Sims or practicing your building skills with SimCity doesn't seem bad at all.
Via Gamasutra
26 Jumps GT5 release date spotted at Target?
Best prices available for:
Contact Us:
The QJ.net Network |
 |
| Site | Feed |
| QJ.NET | RSS |
| Nintendo DS | RSS |
| PlayStation 3 | RSS |
| PSP Updates | RSS |
| Wii | RSS |
| Xbox 360 | RSS |
| MMORPG | RSS |
| Personal Computer Games | RSS |
| iPhone - iPod Touch | RSS |
| QJ.NET Forums | RSS |
Add QJ.NET
User Favorites - February
User Favorites - February
Categories
Archives
February 2010
January 2010
December 2009
November 2009
October 2009
September 2009
August 2009
July 2009
June 2009
May 2009
April 2009
March 2009
February 2009
January 2009
December 2008
November 2008
October 2008
September 2008
August 2008
July 2008
June 2008
May 2008
April 2008
March 2008
February 2008
January 2008
December 2007
November 2007
October 2007
September 2007
August 2007
July 2007
June 2007
May 2007
April 2007
March 2007
February 2007
January 2007
December 2006
November 2006
October 2006
September 2006
August 2006
July 2006
June 2006
May 2006
April 2006
March 2006
February 2006
January 2006
Comments
Reply
Reply
Reply
Reply
* World of StarCraft (WoS – MMORPG genre): go to google.com -> click ‘images’ button to do image searching -> type ‘World of StarCraft’ -> you can see 2 exclusive pictures. Back in early 2006, Blizzard gave an exclusive interview about WoS and these 2 in-game pictures of WoS to GameSpot. About 1 week later, Blizzard requested GameSpot to remove all information on WoS because WoS was in very early and immature stages.
* Call of Duty 5: Infinity Ward makes CoD 2 and 4; Infinity Ward has been making CoD 4 since Dec. 2005. Treyarch makes CoD 3 and 5; Treyarch has been making CoD 5 since Jan. 2007. CoD 2, 3, 4, and 5 games’ publisher is Activision (Activision decided which version will be made by which developer).
* Jak & Dexter Next-Gen: Naughty Dog is currently making Uncharted: Drake's Fortune and Jak & Dexter at the same time.
Gears of War 2, MotorStorm 2, Doom Wars, Ninja Gaiden 2, Black 2, Wolfenstein Next-Gen, Dead Rising 2, Dead or Alive 5, Resistance 2, Beowulf Next-Gen, Knight of the Old Republic 3 (all of the above games’ existence is widely and publicly known; however, never officially confirmed)
Killzone 2
God of War 3
Resident Evil 5
StarCraft Ghost Next-Gen
Heavy Rain
Jak & Dexter Next-Gen
Turok
Bioshock
MotorStorm
Gears of War
Unreal Tournament 3
Crysis
Haze
Army of Two
Ratchet & Clank Future: ToD
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
Fable 2
Devil May Cry 4
Gran Turismo 5
Folklore
Virtua Fighter 5
StarCraft 2
Eight Days
2 Days 2 Vegas
Cipher Complex
WarDevil
Final Fantasy XIII
White Knight Story
Earth No More
Interstellar Marines
Call of Duty 5
The Chronicles of Ridd+ck: AoDA
The Crossing
Project Offset
Battlefield: Bad Company
Warhawk
Age of Conan: HA
Global Agenda
Heavenly Sword
Grand Theft Auto 4
Fifth Phantom Saga
Team Fortress 2
Call of Duty 4
The Settlers
Alone in the Dark
Brothers in Arms: HH
Time0
Timeshift Next-Gen
Fatal Inertia
Forza Motorsport 2
Splinter Cell: Conviction
Soul Caliber 4
Getaway
Afrika
Hydrophobia
Max Payne 3
Duke Nukem Forever
Deus Ex Next-Gen
Silent Hill 5
EndWar
Indiana Jones Next-Gen
World of StarCraft
Condemned 2: Bloodshot
Monster Hunter 3
Star Wars Battlefront 3
StarWars: FU
Lost Planet 2: Colonies
Company of Heroes: OF
Final Fantasy versus XIII
The Last Remnant
Golden Axe Next-Gen
Kingdom Hearts 3
Civilization IV: BtS
The Club
The Outsider
Stalker 2
Guitar Hero III
Stranglehold
The Darkness
Kane & Lynch: DM
Elveon
Tekken 6
Medal of Honor: Airborne
Half Life 2: Ep 2
Ninja Gaiden Sigma
Alan Wake
Saboteur
Metal Gear Solid 4
Spore
Dark Sector
World in Conflict
SEGA Rally Revo
Assassin's Creed
Project Gotham Racing 4
Enemy Territory: QW
Burnout Paradise
The Agency
The Wall
FEAR the 2nd
GhostBusters Next-Gen
Lost Odyssey
Eve Online 2: Revelations
Lair
Halo Wars
Ace Combat 6
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
Supreme Commander
Mass Effect
Fracture
Left 4 Dead
WoW: BC
Blue Dragon
Portal
SimCity Societies
Universe At War
Eternal Sonata
Frontlines: FoW
Mercenaries 2
Dark Messiah of M&M 2
Midnight Club Next-Gen
Huxley
Too Human
SOCOM Confrontation
Resistance: FoM
EverQuest II: EoF
Warhammer Online
* (There’re 75 more games in between; I just can’t list them all here due to the limitation of writing space)
Halo 3
Theseis
Overlord
Halo 2 (Win Vista)
Shadowrun
See, this? There’s almost countless number of games which are better than Halo 3 in all respects. Why should I waste even 5 minutes to play Crapalo 3 when there’re 200 better games? It just makes no-sense at all. Kids, use your common sense because X360 fanboys can never think and rationalize with clear and unbiased mind.
Reply
Now... First of all, WTF are you posting this ***** here for? The article is about a gaming school...
Second of all, I would WAY rather play Halo 2/3 over Sega Rally Revo...
Third of all... Why the hell is Halo Wars, Halo 2, and Halo 3 in that posting you just made?!
You just complained about it being the worst games ever... yet they're in the list of "Better games then the halo series"
And lastly, people don't play the Halo series for the graphics, they play it for the gameplay, because IT'S FUN.
Now like I said again, go fck yourself, Please?
Reply
Not to say that Halo is or isn't a good game, I personally never got into it. I just had to stop by and say wow, almost the whole list you pasted are not released yet.
BTW, "best" is an opinionated term. Stop using it to justify what you say like it automatically makes fact or something.
Bye.
Reply