April 12, 2004

By: David Sacco
Website: http://www.a1-in-toys.com

Getting high scores in video games and the classroom

Can video games really help teach children how to think?  Are kids just learning facts and trivia today from our current education system?  These are important questions one must ask.  Studies show that approximately 35-40% of students lack basic reading skills.  It seems that with our current education system kids are not learning how to think anymore.  Teaching has become basically mechanical instruction and multiple- choice questions and answers.  How the computer age and video games can possibly help are children learn new skills is an important question we must look at, especially with the fact that these games not going anywhere anytime soon.

The fact is that kids today are learning new skills, and accumulating new information and concepts within the computer age.  Like it or not video games are here to stay and kids are devouring them up.  Studies do show that children playing computer games can experience a much more powerful learning experience then within the classroom.

Lets face it kids today do spend more time playing video games then even watching TV. Is it not important that we do find a way to incorporate educational themes into computer software.

In his recent book, "What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy," James Paul Gee,  says that learning principles are incorporated that reflect what researchers know about human learning. He also states that the games and the learning principles are poorly represented in today's schools.

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