Video Games Stimulate Learning
BBC News,
Mar 21, 2002
This BBC item in today's elearningpost is accompanied by a BBC article from last November headlined "Learning games do not boost results." Perhaps the authors of elearningpost were using cut-and-paste to make a wry comment (I wish they would use their keyboard to make wry comments, but that's another issue). But as any OLDaily reader (and hence, reader of Seymour Papert) knows, the two stories, though they look like they contradict each other, do not. Games like Sim City are designed to be difficult, to challenge the player. But "educational" games are generally designed, as the television ads say, to "make learning easy." It's not surprising that exactly contrary design objectives would have contrary outcomes. (The November item is located at http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/education/newsid_1676000/1676869.stm )
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