US school adds Portal to compulsory curriculum

This is a triumph, I'm making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS, it's hard to state my satisfaction. Sorry I just listened to that song quite a bit.
 
And while we on the subject of school...

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It seems games are seeping even further into our education system. We've already reported the inclusion of Portal in the coursework at Wabash College, and now we learn that the University of Florida is offering a class in StarCraft -- 21st Century Skills in Starcraft (EME2040). The course, taught by doctoral student Nathaniel Poling, uses Blizzard's classic RTS to impart students with skills in the areas of "critical thinking, problem solving, resource management, and adaptive decision making."

Poling told Technology Review that StarCraft requires players to manage "a lot of different units and groups of different capacities," a skill that translates in real world business. The course -- the university's first fully online class -- requires students to play the game, watch recorded matches, and write papers "which emphasize analysis and synthesis of real/game-world concepts." Oh, the class also has no final exam and does count toward a student's GPA. In other words: enroll in this class now.
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http://www.joystiq.com/2010/08/24/starcraft-features-in-university-of-floridas-21st-century-skil/
 
I think RTS games are probably the best examples to use in an educational sense - since, as that article says - the skills required reflect quite well on real-world abilities needed after school.

That being said ... the gamer-boy in the corner will probably wipe the floor with the rest of the class, since he is a gamer. And I can't help but think that there may be negative outcomes if the process isn't handled properly.
 
shadowfox said:
I think RTS games are probably the best examples to use in an educational sense - since, as that article says - the skills required reflect quite well on real-world abilities needed after school.

That being said ... the gamer-boy in the corner will probably wipe the floor with the rest of the class, since he is a gamer. And I can't help but think that there may be negative outcomes if the process isn't handled properly.
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For once he won't be the loser tho
 
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