The Sims Is Educational!
An article paraphrased from BBC News:
God games in which players must control virtual people and societies could be educational, says research. A US researcher has suggested that games such as The Sims could be a good way to teach languages.
Learning via something like The Sims may mean students do not feel like they are studying at all. This was because The Sims does not rely solely on words to get information across to players. Instead the actions of its computer controlled people and how they interact with their world often makes clear what is going on.
In a version of The Sims adapted to teach German, if a player misunderstood what was meant by the word "energie" the actions of a tired Sim, stumbling then falling asleep, would illustrate the meaning.
Read Full Article at BBC News Online.
Written at 17:37 on Tuesday, 18 January 2005 by Neil.
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Written at 23:34 on Tuesday, 18 January 2005 by ChEeTaH (TSZ Webmaster) (ChEeTaH)
This is similar to what another article posted about last week said. See
this post for that one (it's the third article that's mentioned) :-)
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Written at 01:41 on Friday, 21 January 2005 by Amanda (shine137)
Cool.
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