Intresting article on kids learning science from video games

[mapes]

Games Without Frontiers: How Videogames Blind Us With Science

[Thrashdragon]

Interesting article, but the percentage of players of any given game actually doing that sort of in-depth research and reasoning is very, very tiny. Everyone else just googles their results and uses someone else's work in their discussions.

As an analogy, if you need to look up a walkthrough for a game you're stuck on, you'll usually find no more than 2 or 3 of them out there, no matter how popular the game is. But you'll find those same 2 or 3 walkthroughs reposted on and linked to from dozens of websites.

[{CLR} Naillik]

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[mapes]

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huh?

[{CLR} Naillik]

um.... it posted my original twice so i edited one to say that... but now there's only 1?????????? I forget what I said earlier

[ShosSofe]

Well, Call of Duty 4 can kind of teach you some physics. Like the lag time in sniper bullets. But yeah, you won't really know about that unless you read a book or a friend of buddy tells you.