Now whoever says gaming doesn’t help. I beg to differ, atleast this one instance. Red Herring is running an interview with Ivan Marovic, one of the architects of the Otpor youth movement in Yugoslavia, that was responsible for overthrowing Milosevic. They will always be remembered for their non-violent approach to regime change. Be it their spray paints or street plays, they sure have become a symbol of sorts for youth across many countries. And now Marovic has come up with a strategy game that teaches gamers how to try changing governments through peaceful means. While I am yet to see the game firsthand…If nothing else, i thought that was atleast an attempt at injecting something useful through games. I was thinking of this issue more after reading how a bunch of professors, gaming programmers and software company execs were sharing a ride on the high seas trying to figure out how to make gaming more pervasive in the classroms and how to make sure the students learn more out of ‘em…..Sure, bring ‘em all and more aboard. But I’d rather see a piece of software that *really* makes learning interesting, rather than a FPS where one can get to count body bones ![]()
February 9th, 2006 at 7:22 am
I had done a nine month full time crash course MBA for work expereinced people. We had too much too do in too little come which was described as a real life simulated environment. I was able to appreciate that much better when I got a line job. Similarly simulated games can be far more useful in drawing out the potential of a chld which is the real purpose of education rather than blind thrusting of facts. Games actually exercise the mental muscles and facts only add to fat. There is a world of difference between being knowledgeable and being intelligent.
February 14th, 2006 at 11:29 pm
this new blogskin rawks
:D
have you shifted the hosting to wordpress or summat ?
February 15th, 2006 at 10:39 pm
@Hiren…Fine distinction that you draw there

@Q….Danke sire..Yea, shifted to Wordpress, courtesy the pagal one