Some critics have complained that promoting video games in schools and colleges dumbs down education. Academics from colleges around the world gathered this month at Harvard to discuss a multimillion-dollar project to build virtual-reality software exclusively for education, to promote serious gaming in classrooms. Check out an article from The Chronicle (free link).
Not everyone thinks that encouraging students to play online games is a good idea. Michael Bugeja, director of the journalism school at Iowa State University, said video games do not help students handle real-life challenges.
“Education and entertainment are two different processes,” he said. “They require two different interfaces. Our whole society is being eroded by entertainment.”
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