On the one hand this is pretty cool: Microsoft, working in partnership with institutions such as MIT, is developing games designed to facilitate learning. " As in popular computer games, students can use different 'virtual' tools, like a crane, to help complete their quest. They can also consult virtual experts to give them pointers." On the other hand, this is a big-money big-industry investment: it costs $US 100,000 just to join the Learning Federation, the partnership founded by Microsoft to support the venture (see their website at http://www.thelearningfederation.org/). "Microsoft's dream is to build a component like Xbox to put in schools. It would be a plug-and-play technology that teachers could use to customize and build their own lessons."
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