School in Norway use Telltale's The Walking Dead to study Ethics
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http://theforeigner.no/pages/news/norway-school-uses-zombies-to-teach-ethics/
To be honest I believe this game could give inetersting views and angles on humanity when society collapse. It will test your morale, and how far you're willing to go to survive, and how you treat other survivors in the same situation.
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That sounds pretty interesting. I've heard stories of people using the game for academic research as well. It's cool to see what impact this game has had.
Now I want to live in Norway...
All joking aside, this just proves to people that video games can be used for a higher purpose rather than just entertainment. Portal 1 and 2 are used in school as well, and to see a game like The Walking Dead being taught in a class room is quite inspiring to say the least.
Man, we live in an exciting time. We get to see a medium that's still in its infancy slowly being embraced on a social level, and transcending its own conventions to be relevant academically as well.
We're on the ground level of media's final frontier... Interactive entertainment. And as this thread shows, few are pushing the boundaries more than Telltale!
Here's hoping that the gamification of school continues. I've always been a firm believer in games as a teaching tool since the Jump Start games improved my math skills as a kid.
Not to mention language skills! I probably wouldn't even feel confident writing this comment if I hadn't started learning english from games at a young age.
I know right. Learned English and Japanese through various untranslated/imported games and Visual Novels and it's thanks to those that I even have my current job. Interactive entertainment is the future, not the current "beat it into your head until you feel like puking" method. I'm pretty sure that if the people responsible for our Education spent more time thinking "How could we make this lesson less boring for the students ?" instead of "I'll just throw that nugget, do a few practice exercises then call it a day, I wonder what's for dinner tonight ?" then there'd be much better results worldwide.
I'm not saying teachers should be GTO-like (how cool would that be though...) but there could definitely be an improvement on that part.
During one of our class travels we've been in a school where students all have laptops during lessons, they could take a break and do a few mini-games (5 minutes locked timers on games for a 1h lesson) and could chat freely between each other.
Guess what, this school's success rate in national exams is over 97%...
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Well I think we know what school to attend now
if it wasn't for rpgs I can honestly say I would probably be illiterate as I cant stand to read a book. I try but some books go way into the smallest detail when a visual aid can paint a 1000 words in a second while I have to spend 2 pages reading what so and so's house looks and smells like which when described I could care less but if I see it gets the point over in a second while I can focus on other things at the same time.... video games should have been implicated in schools a long time ago, who knows maybe I wouldn't have spent my last 2 years of high school tired of giving a fuck seeing as I was always an A student till then. Read the great Gatsby? bitch read between my fingers >:O
It's an interesting take on the entire concept. First of all, its of course cool they use a game as an education tool, but I don't think it should or could be limited to ethics/TWD. I think some kind of education class used Sim City as a model for how societies grow and Minecraft cold be used in pretty much any creative class and so on, its just a question of how open for new ideas teachers and schools are.
When reading books, your brain will be the most active, compared to doing other things (watching tv, playing games)
I know one thing. If I ever have a child I won't let them anywhere near those god awful kids games aimed at teaching some bullshit, you know those games for 5 year olds. Those things do nothing but bring misery to all those that happen upon them.
I like that with so many different stories told in games a parent who has played that game gets an opportunity to listen to what their child thinks about parts of it.
I can't wait to see how this works out,. It's a very interesting social experiment and I hope it brings good results. I wonder if the students will like it, for instance, given that the game was imposed by the school. Personally, I've gotten to hate a few very good book just 'cause I had to overanalise every single fricking line. I really hope this is not the case.
Agreed. We should be analysing the parts that interest us, not forced to analyse the exact same parts that won't always even contain extra meanings to some people
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Waint do all students play the game or watch someone play it? School computers here in norway are pretty shit and all college kids buys a mac.
Waint do all students play the game or watch someone play it? School computers here in norway are pretty shit.
Waint do all students play the game or watch someone play it? School computers here in norway are pretty shit.
Waint do the students play the game or watch someone play it? School computers here in norway are pretty shit.
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When I was around 8, my walls were painted entirely blue. I must have been on the verge of suicide.
Well,TWD is different because the player is left in his toughts about the characters and the choices. TWD is a game where you are almost FORCED to see extra meanings. But that pic maked me laugh a lot,so thanks.
Now that's interesting....imagine the class getting divided by people who want to help Lilly revive Larry (Episode 2) and the ones to want to help Kenny "stop Larry from turning".
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Games as a educational tool...
I, myself, I'm not from English origin, so, all my english that I learned, I learned by playing videogames.
I wonder what those classes are like...the teacher pauses the game when it arrives to the part were Lee has to cut off his arm.
Teacher: Now, who thinks that Lee should cut off his arm?
Half the class lifts up arm
Teacher: Who thinks he should keep his arm.
Half the class lifts up arm
Now if that happens it would have to go to a swing vote
yeah maybe, but not when it doesn't catch your interest and you're just reading it cause you have to and are constantly asking yourself "Omg when is this boring piece of shit book going to be over" Honestly if I have a movie on my dvr I end up skipping about a fourth of it cause I get tired of the blah blah blah bullcrap who cares moments" There's a few books that catch my interest but when its unnecessarily long just for the point of being a long book then I lose interest. I like when people get strait to the point, so I guess that has something to do with why I don't enjoy reading most of the time. Articles are better to read, they inform you on the world without focusing so much detail on a fictional character I couldn't care less about.
It provides great discussions for how others think, reasoning behind things and such.
Cool, there are people that think that games fuck your brain, well... Not all of them.
My AP physics teacher uses Kerbal space program to teach delta V (mathematical, and true), Isp, air resistance, friction, TWR, and many more. Then once a month we spend 2 hours having a competition to see who can go the furthest and safely land back on kerbal, and bonus points if you land on the surface of a celestial body and then take off again. But you have to show your math which is a pain
Since this particular example uses TWD for ethical studies, I rather think the questions would be something like:
Lilly just shot someone at the side of the road. Do you a) leave her in a zombie-infested countryside (and if so, why?), or do you take her with you, despite what she just did (and if so, why?).
The thing with this kind of education, training or what have you is that there isn't a clear-cut right answer. Ethics is a school from the philosophy, and as such best contemplated over a very long time.
Speaking as someone with a bachelors degree in English Literature… you're not a million miles away, dude.
I'm moving to Norway.
OP, your avatar is awesome.
On topic, this sounds pretty interesting, mostly just because I enjoy imagining what how an entire classroom would react to certain scenes in the game. Like, would the whole class break out in laughter when Kenny calls Lee "urban"? And would the room be filled with tears sobs and at the end of No Time Left? Screw ethics, I wanna be there just to see how an entire group of students reacts to my favorite video game.