Thursday, December 4, 2008
Spore
I think Spore is a wonderful way to integrate technology into the educational environment. Both young children and teenagers enjoy technology and want to learn more and become immersed in this dimension. There are several platforms that you can choose to incorporate Spore into your classroom. One important message that the creator stressed was sociology. He seemed to try to replicate real life experiences. The more exposure that students have to the real life they will be much more comfortable and willing to adapt when they hit the real world. It provides an interdisciplinary approach to learning sociology meets science is just one approach.
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You make a good point about sociology in the classroom. I believe too that the more exposed kids are to how the real world acts early on, the better adjusted they will be as they grow into adolescence and adulthood. Plus I think the game is being true to showing how creatures can grow and die, just as cultures can being more popular or extinct.
You are so right, teenagers love technology, and they have almost come to the point where they need to have that sensory stimulation in order to fully participate within the classroom environment. I think this is why it is so important, for us, to learn how to incorporate technology within our very own classrooms.
I'm teaching a college class and one of the feedback comments I got was how they wish there was a way to incorporate games into their learning environment.
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