More Video Games, Fewer Books at Schools? (Friday Mar. 16th,2007 by Debra Sherman)

There is an on-going proposal to help failing schools through the use of video games. These video games are not the gorey games such as Mortal Combat or Doom, but rather alternative educational video games. These video games propose real world questions or problems and students have to work through processes and form hypotheses to solve real world problems. I think that this is a wonderful idea because kids naturally love video games and television, and even still enjoy them when they are educational. I think that video games should have their place in schools, just as long as traditional classroom teaching is still held valuable and is still used. Just like I still believe that text books have a place in today's classrooms.