What is Digg?Sponsored by Dragon Age: Origins
Can't get enough Dragon Age: Origins? Check out new footage. view!
DragonAge.BioWare.com - EA presents BioWare's new dark fantasy epic Dragon Age: Origins. '9/10' from Game Informer.
95 Comments
- lordmike, on 04/09/2008, -0/+23Oregon Trail, FTW!!! Seriously, there is a current edition out of that game... they still play it in classrooms, albeit with greatly upgraded graphics and sound...
- azurechaos, on 04/09/2008, -1/+18How about Portal for logic class?
I think playing video games my entire life has helped me tremendously with just being agile in reacting to situations. I've noticed that I often think completely different from people I know who have never really played video games. They may not have helped me too much in areas like calculus, world history, and the sort, but I think a strong sense of logic is one of the best assets a person can have. - lekahe, on 04/09/2008, -0/+17I agree, they help, but used only now and then. Besides different learners should be taken into account; some may benefit from traditional methods more.
The main point is that parents should NOT dictate what methods the teachers use!!!! - recklessfire, on 04/09/2008, -0/+16It is all about Math Blaster. That stuff was great back in elementary school. Learn about math AND shoot up weird looking pixels.
- serif69, on 04/09/2008, -0/+13Does ***** still have dysentery?
- ubernoggin, on 04/09/2008, -0/+11Everything I know about life I learned from Space Invaders.
/What, that's not what you mean by 'educational'? - meruru, on 04/09/2008, -0/+11Are you calling Oregon Trail "total crap"?!
Blasphemy! - kensmithkw, on 04/09/2008, -0/+10It is amazing how much kids pick up from educational video games and at really young ages cartoons.
- brwright, on 04/09/2008, -0/+9My 5 year old cousin has been playing computer games since she was 1.5-2 years old. She is brilliant. She can open up Firefox and type in nickjr.com to play her games. You can learn much more from doing and thinking than from listening to a teacher lecture.
- kingmanic, on 04/09/2008, -0/+9"you would have collected over 5,000,000 pounds in meat. Unfortunately you could only carry 100 pounds back to the wagon."
- delmar14, on 04/09/2008, -0/+6I learned to read when I was 4 because I played old-school rpg's. More parents should give games a try with their kids too.
- tfinniga, on 04/09/2008, -0/+6I think a big part of it is that making something educational and fun is tricky.
That, and the first several generations of 'edutainment' software was total crap. - YellowSnowDemon, on 04/09/2008, -0/+6Login name... password... gold counting... You're making him farm gold and scam auction houses in World of Warcraft, aren't you!?
- NikoKun, on 04/09/2008, -0/+5My keyboarding teacher, from back in high school, always used a typing videogame/program to help teach us to type on a keyboard, and increase our speed.
I think it worked wonderfully, at my peek I can get almost 90 words a minute. - Andrwmorph, on 04/09/2008, -0/+5This is sad but my rock band addiction really upped my hand eye coordination
- eyepatch100, on 04/09/2008, -0/+5We all learn from video games. I mean, without them I would have no idea what to do in the event of a zombie outbreak.
- mogebier, on 04/09/2008, -0/+5We got my 3 year-old son a V-Smile and it is AWESOME!! He is really good at it and he is learning a lot about letters and numbers.
Not to mention working on those hand/eye coordination skills! - JudgeMonkey, on 04/09/2008, -0/+4I tried typing of the dead and coundn't finish the first level.
But I DID try it, isn't that what counts? - dangerdooms, on 04/09/2008, -0/+4"Alright, it's Saturday night. I have no date, a two-liter bottle of Shasta and my all-Rush mix tape. Let's rock!"
- YellowSnowDemon, on 04/09/2008, -0/+4I don't think Brain Age was designed to make people really learn. It's just to keep people sharp.
- XStatic, on 04/09/2008, -0/+3We need education games on platforms. Nintendo is making a few for older players but not a lot for the younger kids. The DS would be a great platform for learning spelling, math tables, grammar rules, geography, etc.
- virtualball, on 04/09/2008, -0/+3"He also knows things like "if you have 190 gold you and you want to buy something that needs 200 gold, you're almost there" - but amusingly can't tell you what "200 minus 190" is because he says he doesn't have enough fingers."
*Collective Digg "Awwwwwww....."* - MacEnvy, on 04/09/2008, -0/+3Because they have the car keys.
- h4mx0r, on 04/09/2008, -0/+3I know it helped a bit. We had these math based adventure games, and it was fairly motivating to be able to beat the game on increasingly harder difficulties. I remember the game acted as a fairly good reinforcement of what I had just learned. Somewhat like giving it a real application of the information.
- SirTheGuy, on 04/09/2008, -0/+3I've said it before, I'll say it again. I learned more important history through Age of Empires and Empire Earth than I did through school!
- manitoba98xp, on 04/09/2008, -0/+3If that's true (you didn't cite any source), you're ignoring the fact that intelligence (and wisdom) develop with age. A 5-year-old child is not more intelligent than his 25-year-old parents, even if he will grow up to be so when he is 25. By your logic, he's far more intelligent than them, so he should be the decider of family policy.
Your logic is flawed.
P.S: It's "parents". No apostrophe.
P.P.S: "phenomena", not "phnomena" - rmxz, on 04/09/2008, -0/+3+1. My 4 year old learned how to spell "play", "game", "google", "elmo", his name (which is his login name), his password (an 7 letter word with a number in the middle), and about a dozen other words while he was still 3 years old. He'd ask me to read the words he didn't know on the screen, etc.
He also knows things like "if you have 190 gold you and you want to buy something that needs 200 gold, you're almost there" - but amusingly can't tell you what "200 minus 190" is because he says he doesn't have enough fingers. - freezerburn666, on 04/09/2008, -0/+3my 40 year old boss has a 7 and a 4 year old and vowes never to let them lay their hands on a video game ever. i think thats a bit overkill.
- MacEnvy, on 04/09/2008, -0/+3This isn't really about videos. It's about video games, which are necessarily interactive.
Also, Baby Einstein was proven NOT to be any better than any other kids' programming:
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/08 ...
So yeah, videos don't work, but this is about video games, which have a long history of success in education (though they are just beginning to be recognized as such). - ZenMojo, on 04/09/2008, -0/+2Number munchers changed my life!
P.S. Watch out for the damn osprey! - sexybobo, on 04/09/2008, -0/+2http://www.pcgaming.ws/viewgame.php?game=number_mu ...
Number Munchers download. - kepsux, on 04/09/2008, -0/+2Psh. The cool kids played Odell Lake.
- sexybobo, on 04/09/2008, -0/+2shame he never learned how to make 2 trips or get ***** to come with him to collect it.
- anevilscientist, on 04/09/2008, -0/+2dude, number crunchers, who remembers that? I remember playing a bunch of educational games on old IBM and mac machines. Mostly in the library, computer class down time, or at latch key.
- mnemy, on 04/09/2008, -0/+2I donno if they helped, but I used to play a couple edu games. I used to love this mountain puzzle game that had math or something. Forget the name. An of course there was always math blaster. Not nearly as fun as the afore mentioned mountain game. And I played them willingly o_0. Now if they had some multiplication mini games inbetween GTA missions, I'm sure kids would struggle through them to continue playing =P
- CJMac, on 04/09/2008, -0/+2Have you forgotten "Number Munchers"? That weird frog thing single-handedly taught me arithmetic
- mille716, on 04/09/2008, -0/+2Completely agree. Video games are not the educational miracle we gamers would wish them to be. They are a TOOL for teaching students and like anything will mostly be effective only with a competent teacher. However, its an underused tool in education if there ever was one.
- JasonsLan, on 04/09/2008, -0/+2no kidding, think twice about letting your 4 year old watch all the Family Guy episodes with you, (just because you think they don't understand, does not mean they won't repeat what they hear..)
- nospinhere, on 04/09/2008, -0/+2I bet I can kick anybodies ass here in Oregon Trail!
- MacEnvy, on 04/09/2008, -0/+2Average IQ != Individual IQ
- terrix, on 04/09/2008, -0/+2And teacher's are constrained by their lesson plans, standardized tests, and course curriculums. What's your point?
- sexybobo, on 04/09/2008, -0/+2luckily he is not in to lolcats would be funny if he learned how to read and write only in lol
- tofuninja, on 04/09/2008, -0/+2i did way better than everyone in history growing up by playing sid meyer's civiliation. i would play a game to learn any day. i'm sure if they had a stock exchange game, i would kick ass at it. if they had a subprime mortgage game, at least i'd get to press the reset button.
- ToastPop, on 04/17/2009, -0/+1My parents got us a computer when I was little and I grew up on The Learning Company games such as Treasure Mountain, Treasure Mathstorm, Treasure Cove, Super Solvers, and more. I am almost positive they played a great role in my early learning.
- elhaf, on 04/09/2008, -1/+2> ...at my peek I can get almost 90 words a minute
------------^^^^-------
but with errors... - localzuk, on 04/09/2008, -0/+1In the school I work at, I would say the figure is about 70% of our teachers that use educational computer games. We pay about £6k a year on subscription services, and have a collection of about 150 games for maths, english, science(s), history, geography etc...
- MoClippa, on 04/09/2008, -0/+1I was taught to type on a typing video game, and Carmen Sandiego was used to give us a break between using the typing game... I learned a lot about geography there. It's really helpful for kids to have that sort of software, its fun, and presented in a challenging way that one doesn't associate with standard school testing. Those typing games worked by checking typing mistakes and giving you words to type within a specified period of time, then scoring you... so obviously being competitive kids, we used to challenge each other to speed typing contests, using the software to test us at different levels.... Come to think of it, for doing school work in 5th grade, that was a tremendous amount of fun!
- finn, on 04/10/2008, -0/+1its 'common knowledge' scientific fact that just about all animals use games to teach their children, you need only to look at a family pet dogs/cats to see this. The trick is to filter out the games that actually teach or stimulate the brain instead of mushing it to nothing. Same goes for TV really.. its not the medium, its the content.
- ctpmn, on 04/09/2008, -0/+1MathBlaster helped me pass A.P. Calculous, mabye more indirectly then the Calc book.
- tnoy, on 04/09/2008, -0/+1Those kids would be disappointed if they fond out that games like Grand Theft Auto and Manhunt are not considered "educational."
-
Show 51 - 100 of 104 discussions
The Digg Toolbar for Firefox lets you Digg, submit content, and keep track of Digg even when you're not on the Digg site. Download the official 
© Digg Inc. 2009
— Content created and posted by Digg users is