As I mentioned before I have a weak spot for video games. I was looking through PSFK when I found this interesting post about schools using video games for education. Like it says in the blogg, games are an easy acess point, where school work can meet kids in a space that they already enjoy playing in.
“If you, as a teacher, are satisfied with engaging only 15 percent of your students, then you’re failing the majority,” says Mr. Dubbels. “The big idea is to identify what students are already invested in, and that’s videogames.”
Today, less than 1 percent of the schools teach through video games. I think this number will rise throughtout the years. It all comes down to reaching the kids, and video games will definitely reach the kids. I mean try giving a kid a book with math problems and a video game with the same math problems, what will he choose? No doubt about it, he will definitely choose the video game, so why make it harder than it is. Use the gadgets that the kids love to make the education fun and I promise you that you will se results. I won´t be surprised if the 1 procent has risen to 10 procent in the next 5 years.
That´s all for now!
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