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Voting Question: Should we focus more on promoting video games that have some educational value?
I love history and have since I was a child. When I was a teenager, I came across the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" series by KOEI. I fell in love with the historical aspect of the game and wanted to find out all I could about Chinese History-which wasn't really even covered in my school in any depth. Another game that sparked my interest in another period of history was "Crusader Kings: Deus Vult". I am not the only one, either. I know many people with similar stories as well.
Not all games are like Grand Theft Auto or Halo with little or no educational value. Prior to playing these two games, those eras of history had no appeal to me. Even simple flash games downloaded from the internet had an effect on me. I became interested in what previously bored me to tears-cell biology-by playing a game about that. Not all games are brainless, though there are many that certainly fit that bill.
I can honestly say that I learned more from several video games-and furthermore-I was inspired to continue learning more from such games than I ever did in school. Video games, like them or not-are here to stay. Rather than "throw the baby out with the bathwater", I think we should evaluate the games, see which ones have some potential and encourage our children to play the ones that fascinate them. I didn't begin playing these games in the hopes to learn, but that was the result.
Previously dull-seeming books came to life for me, and I read voraciously about the subjects those games sparked a passion for. Not all children will react as I did to such games, but for those like me that found school to feel more like punishment than education, they could greatly help.
Should we be doing more to promote such games and take advantage of their potential to help children acquire a drive for learning?
There are many bright kids who are in my opinion-being held back because we simply do not know the best way to teach them. The best way that I learn as an adult and as a kid is to be turned loose in a library. I could never focus in class-I was a terrible student but I was a natural researcher. My teachers never realized this and I was pretty much considered the "dumb kid" in most of my classes. What only my friends, family and the librarian knew was that I while I was failing math and science, I was reading about ancient history...so much so that I read every book in the school library on the subject and even got in trouble more than once for writing notes in them.
In short, I loved learning but I hated classrooms.
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