• Educational Electronics
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Who ever said a video game couldn't be educational? Is watching your TV really rotting your brain? I, personally, have learned a lot of useful terminology and information from video games (the realistic ones that is), television, and the internet. The things I learn from them just seem to pop up in daily life. Anybody agree? Example: A few years back my teacher was talking about army ranks. I knew the ranks in order because of Call of Duty. I was able to tell my science teacher what a healing salve is, and was able to explain to my history class what a scourge is because of World of Warcraft. Does anybody else think that TV/Computers/Games can be educational? How so? Share and discuss your experiences!
Only a select few have even what can be considered what's the tiniest bit of educational value. I mean, some toss a bit out here or there, but I honestly doubt you'll learn anything big from games.
Paradox Strategy games (Hearts of Iron/Victoria/Europa Universallis/Crusader Kings) have taught me a hell of a lot about History, Historical Geography, Politics, Geopolitics and Sociology.
[QUOTE=Jad Hinto;27250701]Only a select few have even what can be considered what's the tiniest bit of educational value. I mean, some toss a bit out here or there, but I honestly doubt you'll learn anything big from games.[/QUOTE]Alright detective Dan.
guys cod taught me how to be a soldier oscar mike im gonna join the spec ops when i grow up
All video games are educational in some way; some more than others.
[QUOTE=Jaehead;27250905]guys cod taught me how to be a soldier oscar mike im gonna join the spec ops when i grow up[/QUOTE] Call of duty does have standard military procedures depicted in it. The only thing is that it only applies to the single player(multiplayer is quake with a military theme and some new game mechanics lets face it), everything is too unrealistically depicted "Hey watch me survived being drowned in a river raft!", everything is a linear scripted sequence and you can't communicate.
I'm not saying they have to have mass educational value, or teach you everything you know. All I'm saying is there are a hell of a lot of games out there that will teach you useful information and facts.
Information outside is more valuable experienced firsthand than through the screen. Apparently, I wouldn't know. Things like definitions of words and army ranks are handy but hardly useful. History is interesting.
I have learned a lot from just browsing the internet just random little things that have helped me in my life
I think that although it is right that very few games have educational value I think that all the focus and dedication that is put into games by the players should be harvested to make something very usefull. For an example in garry's mod people are learning how to program. Now if there were something like that in every game. Such as the professions in wow actually could teach you real professions. So games have the potential but very few have actually come to be educational AND fun.
I learned that conventional weapons can kill the covenant. Plus After playing games, I focus more easily with school. quick reflexes:D
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itt: nerds try to justify playing games for 9 hours a day because it teaches them "useful" things and random facts that they can spit out when they go on a date with the obese girl that no one liked in high school.
[QUOTE=makingthatmaker;27252376]itt: nerds try to justify playing games for 9 hours a day because it teaches them "useful" things and random facts when they go on a date with the obese girl that no one liked in high school.[/QUOTE] stop trying you'll never be cool~~
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[QUOTE=makingthatmaker;27252418]i know what i'm talkin bout homegurl dont mess[/QUOTE] sorry man no disrespEct
no problem bruh
Ive found some somewhat useful info on the internet, here, actually I saved something for this very moment. nvm that, its actually, several somethings: [img_thumb]http://i1187.photobucket.com/albums/z387/apurplerock/elevator.png[/img_thumb] [img_thumb]http://i1187.photobucket.com/albums/z387/apurplerock/lifehack.png[/img_thumb] [img_thumb]http://i1187.photobucket.com/albums/z387/apurplerock/lockpick.jpg[/img_thumb] [img_thumb]http://i1187.photobucket.com/albums/z387/apurplerock/morsecodef.jpg[/img_thumb] Thumb'd for massiveness. [tab] I dont remember where I got these from, so they may/maynot be reposts from something[/tab] [editline]6th January 2011[/editline] [del]Okay apparently the second picture got re-sized to the point where you cant actually read it, damn shame, because It had alot of useful stuff on it too :v:[/del] Or maybe you can save it and zoom in?
[QUOTE=jjsullivan;27251004]Call of duty does have standard military procedures depicted in it. The only thing is that it only applies to the single player(multiplayer is quake with a military theme and some new game mechanics lets face it), everything is too unrealistically depicted "Hey watch me survived being drowned in a river raft!", everything is a linear scripted sequence and you can't communicate.[/QUOTE] Not really.
Micro management. I get the house cleaned in record time.
While video games have taught me a lot and have given me a love of History (the other influencing factor being Time Squad :v:), it's made me a lot more distractable
I still swear that playing Pokemon, and reading the dialogue at such a young age, really helped develop my reading skills. Although, I couldn't tell the difference between poison and potion for the longest time.
I really think that came can contribute to a common knowledge. I've learned a lot of random things and such. About everything. Furthermore my english skills developed pretty well because of games and Facepunch. I'm one of the best ones in my class.
Ive learned alot off the ingame Encyclopedic in Civ games. The learning you are all talking about is nonformal learning. It works where they put something historic or real in there game, Now there might be only ten thousand people who play the game and say 10% of them go and research into that. It teaches that 10%. [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning#Types_of_learning[/url]
I used to have one of those "my first computer" things when I was 6 which taught me to spell. Does that count? It also taught me how shit airport security is, they confiscated my bag with it in because they thought it was a bomb. I cried for hours lol, luckily I got it back before I boarded.
Battlefield 1942 taught me loads about general WWII events. And not much else.
Age of Empires 2 taught me much about history. God I love that game.
I learned quite a bit of English from games :buddy: The French translations were terrible so I had no choice but to switch to English or get ear plugs.
Without Garry's mod (particularly wiremod), I would definitely not be as good in my electronics class as I am now.
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