New York has now updated its public school curriculum to include video games.
While most parents may get up in arms, grab their pitchforks and torches, and storm their nearest school administration office, this unit will not be a free-time "play games at school, oh mah gawd" scenario. Students at the Q2L school will still have to attend normal-sized classes, pass the same exams, and attend four 90-minute courses a day. The only difference now is that some classes will involve Adobe Flash and Maya 3D.
Thoughts?
This is a good thing. Adobe Flash and Maya 3D are the future of computing. This step is turning a negative into a positive. Todays's students are tomorrow's workers. Not only that, but the school can now have control over activity that students would gravitate towards anyway.
ReplyDeleteMy nephew who grew up with video games puts me to shame when it comes to eye hand coordination and fast logic thinking. I see some benefits
ReplyDeleteEvery time i hear someone say they want to be a video game programmer i wrinkle my nose. It just doesn't seem there be that many jobs out there for video game programmers. But the industry is growing so hopefully the will be more of a market in the US
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