Practical Gaming in the Classroom Lecture

Tom gives a lecture at FACCS - Florida Association of Christian Colleges and Schools about using games in the classroom.

Category:

Education

[Dracopol]

You have a strange Christian bias. When you got to Pandemic, you mentioned about watching out for the content of games to see if they were anti-Christian. What, you think destroying most of the world's population is God's prerogative and it might offend others to say the viruses are doing it??

[thedicetower]

@Dracopol No. I was saying the opposite. I was saying that even though people might have a problem with some themes, I can't imagine ANYONE having a problem with the theme of Pandemic.

[yugilynn]

Is there a link where I can find the hand outs you gave out during your speech?

[thedicetower]

@yugilynn Yes. Please email me at tomvasel@gmail.com if you want a copy.

[kn5w]

Great talk Tom. The ability to be such a good public speaker is a rare trait. Hopefully some games allow kids to learn these skills.

[talhoyle]

Mentioning a dearth of logic at a religious institution is a delicious irony.

[delusionsofyou]

Interesting talk, thanks Tom!

[ManicRaider]

@MacBeezle Agreed. 

[joakimwilliam]

Amen!

[MacBeezle]

@Tom Don't take it personal! You do great work whatsoever.

[MacBeezle]

Btw: 'Christian schools' shouldn't be allowed. Same with Islamic schools, Buddhism schools, Scientology schools and so on... The problem is that once one starts to indoctrinate children with 'believes' you cannot differ anymore between 'he/she really wants to...' and 'he/she wants to because over the course of many many years he/she was told it's "normal"/everybody does'.

[MacBeezle]

..hmpf. I wrote some other stuff but iPhone just didn't send it. Whatever. Bottom line: Wait with all that religion stuff until your children are old enough to decide by themselves.

[MacBeezle]

If a child would come to me with that request I'll talk to him/her about it: Why he/she thinks she has to do that. If he/she really wants to do it because he/she wants it and not just because friends/school/teachers/tv/... told him/her.

I don't have a problem with religion. Whether an adult wants to pray to a god of choice is totally up to him/her. But school, children an religion should be strictly separated. Everyone wants to 'protect' children from 'everything' - so why indoctrinate them wi

[fiddlerjones84]

@MacBeezle You realize he's at a Christian schools conference, yes? It seems like an appropriate thing to do.