{"id":119,"date":"2008-08-26T07:49:11","date_gmt":"2008-08-26T07:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/?p=119"},"modified":"2008-08-26T07:49:11","modified_gmt":"2008-08-26T07:49:11","slug":"seven-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/seven-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting post from John Rice over at Educational Games Research, on <a href=\"http:\/\/edugamesblog.wordpress.com\/2008\/08\/25\/seven-questions-to-ask-before-using-a-video-game-in-the-classroom\/\" target=\"_blank\">seven questions to ask before using games in the classroom<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some good points here, and I particularly agree with point five: <em>does the game train or teach?<\/em> The thinking here ties in very much with my own views on the potential value of games as constructivist learning environments (rather than training environments).<\/p>\n<p>Not sure I agree with point seven though: <em>are the graphics and gaming quality on par with contemporary entertainment titles? <\/em>Have had some really interesting debates with various colleagues on this very point &#8211; I would argue that the graphics are secondary as long as the game design is good (particularly in the case of HE, although I appreciate this post is focused on children).<\/p>\n<p>(A related\u00a0 article that I&#8217;ve been meaning to post for a while is Todd Bryant&#8217;s From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.academiccommons.org\/commons\/essay\/gamesinclassroom\" target=\"_blank\">Age of Empires to Zork: Using Games in the Classroom<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting post from John Rice over at Educational Games Research, on seven questions to ask before using games in the classroom. Some good points here, and I particularly agree with point five: does the game train or teach? The&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/seven-questions\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,3],"tags":[81],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources","category-thoughts","tag-games-in-the-classroom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p71sY0-1V","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}