New York Launches Public School Curriculum Based on Playing Games - Polidicks

[QUOTE=DoritoBanditV2;17351921]i played fucking zelda when i was a kid, dunno why you played fucking math games...[/QUOTE] because video games > actually learning math

Awesome!!! Btw. I learn best by playing games.. :/ I can remember a looooooooooot of stuff from games that i played like once, but books i read 10 times, i forgot.. :frown:

[QUOTE=aman III;17346365]Okay? So you can remember what you played in a game. It's like good story. I guess in a sense you could sort of apply that to english, but theres not going to be a game for calculus. When I was in grade 4 we got to learn about geography by playing "Cross Country Canada" some point and click adventure delivery game. I didn't learn shit from the game all most of the class did was try to find new ways to get pulled over by the police in game and possibly arrested for not putting your seatbelt on and getting into car accidents. I learned more from picking up an atlas.[/QUOTE] On topic: Agreed. Off topic: Heh, I remember playing that game. I kept sleeping in a motel. Readers Rabbit and Millies Mathhouse, ftw.

[QUOTE=Beau Phos;17346146]Fuck [b]year![/b] Kids playing Civilization = win[/QUOTE] :smug: crappy grammar

Math blaster was fucking intense

[QUOTE=:smug:;17354063]:smug: crappy grammar[/QUOTE] Oh no he mispelled one word he is going to be poor and live in a box becuase he can't get a good job.

[QUOTE=Figgis Fiddis;17347619]If games should be used as material in the classroom, they should stick to edutainment games. Also, [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6b/Readerrabbit1.jpg[/img] FUCK YEAR[/QUOTE] oh god I remember the train.

[QUOTE=BJK;17346218]Half-Life 2 for science class.[/QUOTE] Half life ONE for BIOLOGY class. It had aliens like a mo'fucka!

ASAHAHAHA Civilization is the most unrealistic game in the world and will fuck children up in trying to learn Geography. (and fucking history for that matter.) The Vikings were the first to build the Pyramids and Hitler ruled under a democracy.

[QUOTE=Latias;17348449][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c6/Super_Solvers_-_Gizmos_%26_Gadgets_Coverart.png[/img] was the most advanced game when I was in elementary I'd love living through high school again if it meant playing Call of Duty for history class and Gran turismo for auto shop class shit would be so cash High school would be interesting if your auto teacher just gave you an assignment like "Get less than 2 minutes average on a lap on this course using any car using the FR format and manual transmission"[/QUOTE] OH GOD HE NOSTALGIAAGKNKRGNIR- Seriously, I beat that game twice when I was a kid. Fuck that game was badass.

[QUOTE=aman III;17346275]Yea honestly the kids won't learn shit all, compared to what they could learn the "old" way[/QUOTE] Let us all make assumptions without any information to give us more learned opinions beforehand! Then we shall declare water rather dry and knives not all that sharp and die of repeated stab wounds. I personally love this new utopia you have constructed.

[QUOTE=Mr. Mcguffin;17363817]Let us all make assumptions without any information to give us more learned opinions beforehand! Then we shall declare water rather dry and knives not all that sharp and die of repeated stab wounds. I personally love this new utopia you have constructed.[/QUOTE] I personally love how you think you're more of an authority on educational value than anyone else. [editline]11:20PM[/editline] Basically your argument is PROVE ME WRONG

What about Odell lake? No love for it?

[QUOTE=Figgis Fiddis;17347619]If games should be used as material in the classroom, they should stick to edutainment games. Also, [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6b/Readerrabbit1.jpg[/img] FUCK YEAR[/QUOTE] The point is to make entertainment engaging. As in you actually remember shit of your own volition rather than because you're simply obligated to. If we give them penny budget shit then they might as well learn their biology from D. F. Boringmeier, PHD.

i'm glad im done with school here.

[QUOTE=Mr. Mcguffin;17363833]The point is to make entertainment engaging. As in you actually remember shit of your own volition rather than because you're simply obligated to. If we give them penny budget shit then they might as well learn their biology from D. F. Boringmeier, PHD.[/QUOTE] Education isn't supposed to be exciting. It's supposed to be educating.

[QUOTE=splitsticks;17347684]i'll raise you [img]http://www.superkids.com/aweb/pages/reviews/math1/blaster1/mbe.gif[/img] Good old math blaster[/QUOTE] They raped him. [img]http://www.hal-pc.org/journal/2006/06_novDec/images/1206-Math-Graphic.jpg[/img] [editline]03:23AM[/editline] [QUOTE=Lankist;17363826]I personally love how you think you're more of an authority on educational value than anyone else. [editline]11:20PM[/editline] Basically your argument is PROVE ME WRONG[/QUOTE] My argument is you don't know shit and I don't know shit so let's learn some shit and then we can talk. Otherwise we won't have any shit and then what kind of e-debate would this be?

[QUOTE=Mr. Mcguffin;17363847]My argument is you don't know shit and I don't know shit so let's learn some shit and then we can talk. Otherwise we won't have any shit and then what kind of e-debate would this be?[/QUOTE] Hey guys my self esteem is super low so that means we shouldn't ever talk about anything mildly controversial EVER. If you have no confidence, YOU need to shut up, not the rest of us.

[QUOTE=Lankist;17363844]Education isn't supposed to be exciting. It's supposed to be educating.[/QUOTE] Since when was education supposed to be anything besides the acquisition of knowledge? Work isn't supposed to be fun either. Doesn't mean it can't be, or that it isn't more efficient when it is.

[QUOTE=Mr. Mcguffin;17363889]Since when was education supposed to be anything besides the acquisition of knowledge? Work isn't supposed to be fun either. Doesn't mean it can't be, or that it isn't more efficient when it is.[/QUOTE] You aren't an expert on the subject so you need to stop discussing it.

[QUOTE=Lankist;17363888]Hey guys my self esteem is super low so that means we shouldn't ever talk about anything mildly controversial EVER. If you have no confidence, YOU need to shut up, not the rest of us.[/QUOTE] Well it looks like a week hasn't changed your ability to grossly misinterpret things at will Lankist. [editline]03:26AM[/editline] [QUOTE=Lankist;17363899]You aren't an expert on the subject so you need to stop discussing it.[/QUOTE] Hypocrite says what.

[QUOTE=Mr. Mcguffin;17363904]Hypocrite says what.[/QUOTE] You don't know me, you have no formal education on the subject of me. It is not your place to discuss me.

[QUOTE=Lankist;17363942]You don't know me, you have no formal education on the subject of me. It is not your place to discuss me.[/QUOTE] Fortunately I didn't discuss you, just the views you have expressed in the current discussion.

[QUOTE=Mr. Mcguffin;17363958]Fortunately I didn't discuss you, just the views you have expressed in the current discussion.[/QUOTE] You are not an expert on this discussion so you are not allowed to discuss it.

[QUOTE=Lankist;17363971]You are not an expert on this discussion so you are not allowed to discuss it.[/QUOTE] You are not an expert on my expertise so you are not allowed to discuss it.

I am in fact an expert on your expertise. I have full right to discuss it.

[QUOTE=Lankist;17364018]I am in fact an expert on your expertise. I have full right to discuss it.[/QUOTE] Obviously not, as if you were in fact an expert on my expertise you would know that my expertise is in the field of expertise of my expertise, and therefor I would already know that you were an expert in my expertise. I should know, I'm an expert.

You're going into a tailspin, boy.

[QUOTE=Lankist;17364072]You're going into a tailspin, boy.[/QUOTE] Nonsense, I'm an expert at going into tailspins. If I were going into a tailspin I would realize it.

Quit hijacking the thread.