School uses video games as part of the curriculum. - Creepytown

[Lucavi]

Considering Oregon is in the U.S., and that the entire theme of the game is based off of the western expansion, yeah... I'd consider it an "American thing."

[Rhyis.]

Pretty much all games are made out of the states. I just didn't know what kind of game it is, despite it's title. If it's about American history, well there ya go.

[Siniroth]

We had some crazy Math Maze thing on the computers at school, I held superiority over all the other kids cause I was the only one capable of doing division in grade 2.

[Obev]

You have died of dysentery.

[ronin sparthos]

You have died of dysentery.

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[Yuri-G]

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that is all

[Kerberoz]

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that is all

Fucking nostalgiabomb.

[Boyiee]

You have died of dysentery.

Spoiler: show

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[Kailee]

+1 on Oregon Trail.

But it was all about Gizmo and Gadgets back when I was in elementary. You go around and enter doors and inside doors are mini-games teaching basic mechanical/electrical sciences. You also pick up items for building planes/cars and then race them at the end of the level.

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[Not Kuno]

No love for Mario Teaches Typing?

[Drex]

needs more reinforcement

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also, the entire point of games is to teach the player something so i don't really see the issue. problem is old people don't really get it, but that'll change as younger generations get older (until halo makes its way into the classroom, then we're all dead)

[OWS_Tonx]

lol Oregon trail and Amazon trail. I used to play Unreal Tournament in my comp. programming class with some friends. Shit was bomb playing with like 8 people you knew irl.

[BRP]

All I really need to know I learned in GTA.

[OWS_Tonx]

All I really need to know I learned in GTA.

lol, this made me laugh.

[SephYuyX]

There was this one game I played in gradeschool, but cant for the life of me remember the name of it. It was an action/adventure sidescroller, and you had to collect jewels and such I think.. I think you had like powers too, like using sand abilities.. idk. It was a pretty beefy game for an 8" floppy.

[AoE]

No love for Mario Teaches Typing?

I had this at home but I couldn't install it right away.

Also The Magic School Bus games were pretty fun as well.

[Cesaria]

Am I showing my age here when I confess that my primary school used BBC Acorns when I was a kid there? (Rather worryingly I came across one STILL being used in a classroom only a few years ago).

There's a guy over here that's had a load of success using Myst as the starting point to get primary kids (talking about year 4/5 ish... so age 8-10) writing - just walking through the landscapes as a class and getting them to describe what they're seeing and then transfer that to their own writing (chap called Tim Rylands if anyone's bored enough to be interested and wants to Google). Of course like everything in education he's now making a packet selling his miracle idea... but that's the way things go.

There's so much out there now in schools - I always get really sad when I see interactive whiteboards being used for nothing more than showing Powerpoints on - I used to have all sorts going on with mine - but so many teachers are fucking imbeciles when it comes to using technology well.

The other one that amused me a while back was the guy who found a way to turn a Wiimote into basically a cheap as anything interactive whiteboard. Now I know I've been known to take the Wii into school for an end of term treat before (and thrash kids soundly at Wii Tennis) but I've never taken it to that kind of extreme before.

[Kaelan?]

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[Kerberoz]

can't forget
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and we never had mario typing, had this one in middle school though
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[Cesaria]

Oh God my mother had the worst addiction to Lemmings going at one point - she'd lie in bed, dream up a solution to the level she was stuck on - go downstairs to try it out and still be there murdering the little green-haired bastards two hours later. I'm sure I could like sue for compensation for emotional trauma and a childhood lost to a Lemmings-addicted mother or something.