Learning by playing games in the classroom

SCIENCE DAILY NEWS
from the New York Times Magazine

... That if we have blurred the boundaries between subjects and re-imagined the typical American audience, so that, at least in theory, he came to resemble a typical American living room or bedroom or even a child in your pocket, circa 2010--if other words, the slipstream broadband and always according to the technology that fuels our world has become the source and the organizing principle of our children learning?

What if, instead of seeing the school path, we knew it, we saw him for our kids dreamed possible: a large, delicious video game? this is a radical proposal, but in an age in which just about everything, down-loadable and remix-able ... it might not be so crazy ...

What makes searching for unique, not so much that it loaded with notebooks or even that it accounts himself directly as a home for children "digital," but rather, is the offspring of a professional game designer, named Katie Salen.

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