Ruth Colvin Clark's short ASTD article Why Games Don't Teach is badly titled and overly brief, but it does have the merit of having stimulated some good reactions. Christy Tucker, especially, contributes a well-reasoned and well-referenced post deconstructing the Clark article. "One study doesn't discount the dozens of successful examples out there. It's bad use of research to treat any individual study as applying in all situations." Another salient point is found in the comments. Gary Boulet wreites, "You can't expect games to 'teach' as teaching is the imparting of knowledge by a teacher to a student. Games are not teachers, they are learning tools, not teaching tools."
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