Video Games

In the past two days, I have seen almost all of the kids at the camp work on video games. I always thought that video games were not educational before hand. I feel differently now, these students are able to learn alot from making games. They are able to showcase their ease of working with computers. It is amazing to me that there is no explanantion needed for most of the programs, and they need just a little bit of guidance.. Honestly, most of the questions they have are too advanced for me to answer so with help we figure it out together!

I also think that the skills that they are learning in this camp could be used later to showcase their knowledge of another subject. They could make a video game that represents a struggle studied in socail studies, or maybe even an animation for their art class. From talking to the kids, they seem interested in downloading some of these programs and workign with them for fun at home.

I think that this goes back to the digital natives vs. digital immigrants issue. These students are able to learn so fluently because thay have always lived in an environment with video games, and technology.