{"id":208,"date":"2011-07-07T10:57:56","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T10:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/?p=208"},"modified":"2011-07-07T10:57:56","modified_gmt":"2011-07-07T10:57:56","slug":"is-michael-gove-really-embracing-game-based-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/is-michael-gove-really-embracing-game-based-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Michael Gove really embracing game-based learning?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/gamesblog\/2011\/jul\/05\/michael-gove-games-education\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> on the Guardian games blog a couple of days ago. I won&#8217;t go into too much of a rant here because basically the article itself says it all. But suffice to say that I also find Gove&#8217;s notion that &#8220;when children need to solve equations in order to get more ammo to shoot the aliens, it is amazing how quickly they can learn&#8221;, and his underpinning assumptions about learning, extrinsic motivation and &#8216;students as game consumers&#8217;, somewhat troubling.<\/p>\n<p>The cynic in me also wonders what Gove&#8217;s political motivations might be for jumping (albeit with both legs tied together) on the game-based learning bandwagon.<\/p>\n<p>For anyone really keen, you can see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.education.gov.uk\/inthenews\/speeches\/a00191729\/michael-gove-speaks-to-the-royal-society-on-maths-and-science\" target=\"_blank\">full speech here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting article on the Guardian games blog a couple of days ago. I won&#8217;t go into too much of a rant here because basically the article itself says it all. But suffice to say that I also find Gove&#8217;s&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/is-michael-gove-really-embracing-game-based-learning\/\">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":[3],"tags":[185,184],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-guardian","tag-michael-gove"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p71sY0-3m","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","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=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}