Zócalo Public SquareClass, I Commend You For Your Work On Resident Evil – Zócalo Public Square https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org Ideas Journalism With a Head and a Heart Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:01:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Class, I Commend You For Your Work On Resident Evil https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2012/12/03/class-i-commend-you-for-your-work-on-resident-evil/ideas/up-for-discussion/ https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2012/12/03/class-i-commend-you-for-your-work-on-resident-evil/ideas/up-for-discussion/#respond Mon, 03 Dec 2012 08:01:04 +0000 Zocalo https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/?p=42950 We may have passed the era in which the word “gamification” caused venture capitalists to rush to their checkbooks, but games still have some fight in them. Some people think games can save the world, and others think games can, at the very least, help alleviate social problems. Among the hoped-for functions of games has been that of teaching kids, especially kids who aren’t doing well in school. Perhaps all they need is a little more video gaming in their lives. Or perhaps not. With this in mind, in advance of the Zócalo event “Will Gaming Change the Way We Learn?” we asked several leading education and gaming gurus to offer their thoughts on the following question: Are educational video games overrated as learning tools?

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]]> We may have passed the era in which the word “gamification” caused venture capitalists to rush to their checkbooks, but games still have some fight in them. Some people think games can save the world, and others think games can, at the very least, help alleviate social problems. Among the hoped-for functions of games has been that of teaching kids, especially kids who aren’t doing well in school. Perhaps all they need is a little more video gaming in their lives. Or perhaps not. With this in mind, in advance of the Zócalo event “Will Gaming Change the Way We Learn?” we asked several leading education and gaming gurus to offer their thoughts on the following question: Are educational video games overrated as learning tools?

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