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Books and More for Children and Teens

CNet has an interesting article about the possibility of schools using video games in classroom instruction.  I hate the title of the piece, "More Video Games, Fewer Books at Schools?" because I see it pitting one form of communication against another.  While I will always side with the power of books for education, I wouldn't want to blindly and blithely assume that video games could not be used to reach children who shun books.  This is certainly something that we as librarians as well as educators need to keep our eye on.  Perhaps this is a way for more truly educational games to be created, especially for older children that we could then offer at public libraries?  Sounds exciting to me!

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Everything is something vs. something these days. Are we not capable of understanding something if it's multi-faceted? Or would it not fit into a sound bite? I agree with you video-games, like books, can be an education tool. But I think until we fix our budget crunch problem all (at least my own) school districts face than its a tough slog to justify video-gaming when we don't have enough funding for the basics.

Posted by: The Eeyore Librarian | March 21, 2007 1:20 PM

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