I read with interest Mrs Guyatt’s response to the article “Does Easy do it? Children, Games and Learning” by Papert, S (1998) which puts forth the idea that some children find school hard, or boring, because the teaching methods used by schools ie chalk and talk are not necessarily the way that some children prefer to learn.

The article proposes that children who play lots of computer games ie Play Station, WII, Nintendo, etc may prefer to learn via a joystick, a games console, and an educative game that helps them read or learn maths edutainment style.

While I think this is a good theory, and quite a plausible one, I still think some children spend far too much time on computer games and I would not want to see such learning enter the classrooms. My step-sons spend too much time playing computer games and they are socially inept. They have trouble playing with children for long periods of time and constantly ask if they can play the play station.  I would hate to see them spend even more time playing on a computer – even if it is helping them to learn.

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