World of Warcraft in School: Student Perspectives

The WoWinSchool Project ( http://wowinschool.pbworks.com ) is an after-school program that uses World of Warcraft to encourage students to build skills in leadership, online collaboration, digital citizenship, mathematics and literacy. This video gives an overview of what the students have learned so far in the project as they share their experiences (unscripted) with an interviewer. Take a look at the awesome things these kids are learning.

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Education

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• wowinschool
• world of warcraft
• education
• games
• lucas gillispie

[TheScapeGOD]

I'm curious to know of how long you did this survey and what level did one of the kids get to? aka the child who got to the highest level.

[nerdscience]

@TheScapeGOD These guys got to around 45 or so. Our current group will have some getting closer to 70 I suspect.

[vkvanja]

Everyone outside wow will be happy because their kids are learning about: reading, writing, communication, leadership, mathematics...

On other side, all players inside of WoW will be very unhappy, because you just brought them 20 noobs that will die out in bgs, making everyone lose xD

[nerdscience]

@vkvanja Nahh, they're not that bad! :P

[Davenmor]

Do you as well have classes where you discuss the danger of internet/game addiction and how to avoid it, keep well and fit?

Because how old are those kids, maybe 10-12? I doubt that they are able to control the playtime on their own even adulds have big problems with that!

[nerdscience]

@Davenmor All accounts are managed by teachers with strict parental controls turned on. They don't access their accounts outside of the program. All student play is directly tied to a particular learning objective. And yes, we are addressing a variety of issues related to digital citizenship and responsible technology use. It's one of the project's goals.

[nerdscience]

I wish we could expand the project! :)

[Makalon102]

omg now wow is gonna be full of kids -_-

[TheScapeGOD]

@nerdscience wow, that's impressive. I played World of Warcraft myself and it's quite difficult. Except I didn't find it that interesting. Have you seen my other comment suggesting the game RuneScape?

[TheScapeGOD]

Also, you should try RuneScape in school, because I use to play it at a young age aswell. Maybe that would be a good test.

[frazybaby1]

If this comes to my class, I would have to teach everyone cause unfortunately, I am the only one who plays in my grade because everyone else thinks it sucks and that it's for nerds and crap.

[jackestripador01]

OMG! GUESS WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF EVERYBODY IN THE SCHOOL GOT THEIR WOW ACC DELETED!! O_O

[fuble878]

i'm like there age and i play wow i have 2 85s made all by myself...been playing for 4 years now

[Marzln]

Same headset here! :D

[morganite123]

@nerdscience infact, i think this project may have been an inspiration for many things happening in school today. for example for my GCSE's this year, i took creative media, which is learning about video games and marketing and such, thank you for showing people that video games can be used to teach students different skills that are often overlooked just because alot of adults think playing games is a waste of time and dont take the time to see that people are actually learning.