I really liked that talk on the New York School that is using video games to help students learn their information. (http://www.wired.com/culture/education/news/2007/07/game_school) Director of the program, Katie Saden, said something very interesting about a new type of learning where "The meaning of 'knowing' today has shifted from being able to remember and repeat information to being able to find and use it."
I figure this is a very good point- if we can just google every answer shouldn't we learn more about being able to find answers than the answers themselves? I've had teachers tell me that once you get out of school you don't really need to have everything memorized because you can just google the answer.
However, I was reading one of my mother's magazines and found an article on an increase in bullying of children by children. One of the labelled causes of this lack of social skills? Video games. The article argues that increasing amounts of time spent without "facetime" with real live people has caused children to lose their ability to act socially correct.I can't help but wonder how the kids will do in the 6th-12th grade "video game school".
this is a scary thought. especially with all of the violent senseless video games that are on the market. in video games, one has power, unlike in reality. this may be why heavy video game users find bullying entartaining. it gives them power.
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