07.13.07

You Can’t Learn Anything from Computer Games

Posted in Learning at 11:18 am by Chris Champion

Or can you?  Did you know that the father of video games escaped from Nazi Germany?  Jewish, his family whisked out of Germany just before Kristallnacht.

Or how about the fact that the first video game was NOT pong!

You can TOO learn something – even about world history – from computer games.  Or at least as you have your students conduct research on an INTERESTING subject that ENGAGES THEM!

Thanks to Robin Martin for linking me to her class Wiki (made with WetPaint)- where I saw Wired’s 40-Year Pictorial History of Gaming.  We all know that pictures AND text help learners grasp concepts – this article is great.

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