{"id":260,"date":"2005-10-23T18:13:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-24T01:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/?p=260"},"modified":"2005-10-23T18:13:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-24T01:13:00","slug":"260","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/23\/260\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recovered some old notes from a year ago that were originally intended for a TechNote. I never finished it, but thought that the ideas might still be useful to someone. <\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/news\/article\/0,aid,118717,00.asp\">JFK Reloaded Game Causes Controversy<\/a>\u201d by Jason Tuohey (<i>PCWorld<\/i>)<br \/>\n\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/families\/education\/articles\/1111edcomgames11.html\">Games that teach<\/a>\u201d by Betty Reid (<i>Arizona Republic<\/i>)<br \/>\n\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/education.guardian.co.uk\/elearning\/story\/0,10577,1336332,00.html\">Computer games help children learn, says study<\/a>\u201d by Polly Curtis (<i>Guardian<\/i>)<br \/>\n\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/computergames\/story\/0,11500,1336800,00.html\">Computer games \u2018can help children learn\u2019<\/a>\u201d by Lucy Ward (<i>Guardian<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=4160355\">Gamers Make Serious Work of Computer Games<\/a>\u201d by Ren\u00c3\u00a9e Montagne (NPR)<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/artsentertainment\/2002070534_seriousgames25.html\">Problem-solving games on the rise<\/a>\u201d by Jose Antonio Vargas (<i>Seattle Times<\/i>\/<i>Washington Post<\/i>)<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/artsentertainment\/2002070534_seriousgames25.html<\/p>\n<p>A number of pieces this week [ a year ago :) ] focus on the positive effects of video games on children. The pieces are full of places begging for discussion. Whether you accept the claims of the articles or not, these questions can lead to great classroom conversation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ward\u2019s article explains that video games can \u201chelp children learn concepts such as critical appreciation of narrative structure or character development which they might otherwise study in a novel.\u201d Choose a video game you\u2019re familiar with and sketch out the narrative structure and the ways that the characters develop over the course of the game. Based on your experience with novels, how do the literary elements in the video game compare?\n<li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recovered some old notes from a year ago that were originally intended for a TechNote. I never finished it, but thought that the ideas might still be useful to someone. \u201cJFK Reloaded Game Causes Controversy\u201d by Jason Tuohey (PCWorld) \u201cGames that teach\u201d by Betty Reid (Arizona Republic) \u201cComputer games help children learn, says study\u201d by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-journal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sqzI8-260","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}