Today GameDaily has an interview with Prof. Henry Jenkins. A lot of stuff there, and I haven’t had time to read it all carefully, but at one point he outlines the two key concepts behind educational games as:
“1. All games are educational in that they are teaching us new modes of thought, new ways of processing information, and new strategies for problem solving.
2. There is a value in harnessing the best elements of contemporary game design and deploying them around content which we have traditionally seen as educationally valuable.”
I have no problem at all with the second assertion. It will take me some time, and a later date, to address the first.
