Video Games > Textbooks

[Tyguy]

http://wistechnology.com/article.php?id=1504

Because games keep things ?pleasantly frustrating,? Gee said, players have incentives to keep on improving their performance. That can lead to learning outside the game as well. After his son started playing Age of Mythology, he started reading more about real-world mythology, Gee said.

The article has a few good points. It may of been posted, its from 2005, but a good read nonetheless.

 

[Steven]

When I was a little kid I'd often become really interested in certain things as a result of a really good video game, I've lern't a crap load of stuff from becoming interested in things as a result of a video game. Video games got me into a lot more stuff then books did tbh.

 

[JFry]

Oregon trail taught me all about wagons and diseases. Metroid taught me to use the freeze cannon.

 

[Link]

The proof is in the pudding. When was the last time you learnt to fend off a zombie infestation with a text book? Think about it...

 

[Adabiviak]

I learned that zombies are never safe, even the slow ones. You never know when they'll have a vomit attack. I also learned that, apparently, most aliens have the same agenda of total human domination, and are not to be trusted.

 

[Dan]

Hearts of Iron taught me basically every important country, general,political leader, minister, ship, and division of WW2. Right up until 1946 when I annex the USA playing as Germany.

 

[Seagull]

I've learned more general knowledge in games than I have in school - however, school gets into the specifics, which can be useful.

 

[Jintor]

I gained an interest in Soviet Russia from Red Alert, Advanced Teleportation Physics from Half-Life 1 and 2, but honestly, I'd have been interested without videogames.

Civ4's a mind****, though.