"What parents should be far more concerned about is the relatively pitiful amount of learning going on in our classrooms. As the statistics clearly show, this is a worldwide disgrace. And its clearly not the fault of the kids. Children instinctively want to learn, and are drawn to the places where learning actually happens- such as their video and computer games. Infact, game playing kids learn so much it often intimidates their teachers"(Prensky, 2002).
Response:
I think that Prensky claim of parents needing to be more concerned about the pitiful amount of learning in the classroom than about learning with video games is a good point. I think that with today's standards of education like the No Child Left Behind, students are not receiving a in depth learning experience in the classroom anymore because most teachers do not have enough time to cover every subject at an in depth level and still meet their state required standards. I am not all blaming teachers for this. One reason that I think teachers do not use the video game technology available is because they feel that the way they have been teaching for years works, so why change. However most kids in today's society are technology learns, so I do think that more in depth learning can come from teachers of today and future generations investing in the learning the technologies equipment that can offer the student a chance to learn new skills but be able to enforce the ones that they already have been taught without putting the teacher behind in meeting her standards. It's the point to motivate and inspire are students to learn and if it takes video games to do that I say why not ( Prensky, 2002).
Reference:
Prensky, Marc. "Whats Kids Learn That's POSITIVE From Playing Video Games." N.p., 2002. Web. 26 Mar. 2012. http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/Prensky%20-%20What%20Kids%20Learn%20Thats%20POSITIVE%20From%20Playing%20Video%20Games.pdf.
Related Resource:
Article - "Encouraging Teacher Technology Use"
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech159.shtml
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