Finding Your Science: What video games can teach our schools

[strauchdarren]

Thanks for the video uploaded

[vixxito]

Very good and informative video :)

[gunscankillyou]

this was recorded after Halo: Reach was released and when he said "Modern games" they showed what i think an America's Army game, like WTF?!

[CaptainDesk]

@gunscankillyou All the games they showed are freeware games so they wouldn't have to worry about copyright infringement (although they did show some sort of Metroid clone, but I guess that's fair game).

[Sirus20x6]

If I understand this correctly; playing video games makes me a scientist, and I don't

[FloodPower]

@neurocrater i don't think he meant educational learning but was just talking about how in video games people need to learn a lot of things (controls, how to complete certain objectives, ie what weapons to use vs which characters or what spells etcetc you pick up a lot of things. i have learned a lot about wc3, but that knowledge isn't very applicable outside.

[vetovolition]

The camera wasn't close enough to his face for me.

[masterquest91]

Can someone identify the games used in the footage? (Specifically, the Metroid clone)

[meekayx3]

@masterquest91 it's called minitroid, I believe

[masterquest91]

@meekayx3 thanks

[MinimumOverkill]

@masterquest91 I think that's called Minitroid

[masterquest91]

@MinimumOverkill Wow, thanks

[NebulaSteam]

I like it. I wish colleges would use video games in their study methods; it'd make learning a lot more fun. although it would be a challenge to create such a game (even a crappy game) for many subjects and have the games be effective in teaching as well.