the second is scary :) On Mar 15, 2010, at 2:19 AM, Igor Stasenko wrote:
> On 15 March 2010 02:59, Michael J. Forster <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 2010-03-14, at 16:09, Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> A friend of mine sent this interesting links >>> >>> >>> http://www.wired.com/gaming/gamingreviews/commentary/games/2008/09/gamesfrontiers_0908 >>> >>>> >>>> http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/jan2009/id20090114_362962.htm >>> >>> Worth to read. >>> >>> Stef >> >> >> The students might have employed the scientific method, but the article >> itself is not a good example of even populist science writing. >> >> The author states that enrollment in the sciences has fallen because of >> boring presentation of facts and that video games offer a rejuvenated quest >> for facts. How do we know that enrollment has declined for that claimed >> reason? How do we know that it's not the subject matter of video games that >> interests the students, and that students won't shoe the same disinterest >> when we apply video games to, say, biology or particle physics? >> >> I would never discard a new viable approach to teaching and learning, but >> this sounds a lot like the ethanol solution to climate change. >> > > Hmm, i didn't read a second link, but from a first one i think it says that > it doesn't makes students to be more interested in theory or > fundamental science. > What it does, is teaching them the way of thinking, exactly how > scientific method works. > So, then, once they realising that, it is much easier for them to > learn more diffucult things > and apply the same approach to a different areas. > > >> Mike _______________________________________________ >> Pharo-project mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > > > > -- > Best regards, > Igor Stasenko AKA sig. > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
