Post by leunas on Jan 12, 2007 1:38:13 GMT -5
Professor pushing video games to help kids land jobs
University of Wisconsin professor David Shaffer continues his crusade to help you and I get away with playing games during Bio 101. As previously reported, Shaffer is urging schools to use video games to better prepare students for the work force noting the medium's positive effects when used by the U.S. military to train soldiers, cancer victims to battle their illness, and surgeons aiming to keep their hands nimble.
He intelligently tells Reuters: "There are bad games out there, just as there are bad books. So adults who care about what children learn have to educate themselves about games -- and, more important, start to think about learning in new ways for the digital age of global competition." The take-away, kids: play games to help learn how to juggle technology. Just don't play them for more than 40 hours a week. Okay maybe 30. 20?
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University of Wisconsin professor David Shaffer continues his crusade to help you and I get away with playing games during Bio 101. As previously reported, Shaffer is urging schools to use video games to better prepare students for the work force noting the medium's positive effects when used by the U.S. military to train soldiers, cancer victims to battle their illness, and surgeons aiming to keep their hands nimble.
He intelligently tells Reuters: "There are bad games out there, just as there are bad books. So adults who care about what children learn have to educate themselves about games -- and, more important, start to think about learning in new ways for the digital age of global competition." The take-away, kids: play games to help learn how to juggle technology. Just don't play them for more than 40 hours a week. Okay maybe 30. 20?
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