Myst 'Exile' in the classroom

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Teacher Tim Rylands using one of the Myst series of fantasy PC games to improve his pupils use of metaphor and simile

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[farquad93]

next week, resident evil 2

[clarf]

@farquad93 - hmmm, not sure how that would improve their literacy skills. Still, always useful to know how to cope with a zombie teacher I guess :-)

[periklistsoukalas]

excellent idea ! Bravo to the teacher !

[emerytails24]

Love this game!!

[necro2607]

@oskulock yes, that is because they are playing extremely realistic war games like Modern Warfare 2, etc... That stuff is really fun to play, but it's very graphic and shouldn't be played by people who are not old enough to internalize that kind of content without having some negative effects. I can say firsthand that playing violent games at a young age changed how I thought about the world, and social behaviours and etc.

[LokiClock]

Wow. Talk about ahead of the curve.

[smint25]

@TrackManiaMon he was my old teacher :)

[DaRkLoRd1061]

next week riven!!

[Microsoftultimatefan]

@farquad93 I think that would be to violent for the kids. But I guess that kind of stuff doesn't matter in the educational world. I've been to a museam that had an anatomicaly correct statue of a person. There was no censoring at all.

[Microsoftultimatefan]

These kids should be at least 6 years old or older. Because the rating of the game is E. (Everyone 6+.) Are they going to do the original Myst.

[Microsoftultimatefan]

@clarf Next week should be abe's oddysee.

[dakubeaner]

myst beats oregon trail anyday!

[KNAAC]

If I was a teacher I would use games in my class.