"Videogames help you gain knowledge."

[Azami]

So apparently there are some people out there that think videogames should be taught in school....some even thinking they can help you "gain knowledge."

As someone who grew up gaming and even has gaming addiction, Im strongly against this. Mostly because... what the hell can videogames teach us? More dopamine high?

No, CSGO won't teach you how a gun works.

No, playing Assasins creed won't teach you about history.

And no, playing fighting games won't teach you how to fight.

These same people would also shut up when I ask them, "Well, why don't we make/ play videogames that are actually MADE for education?"

I know of personal experience about educational "games." Well, only one actually.

[Ⓥenom Ⓢnake 🐍]

Wait...

You never heard of educational game software? I grew up with them. Math, science, history, English, typing, and more.

It is especially helpful for people that learn better interactively, like myself.

Now you please show me a school using CS or AC as a learning medium. I'll wait.

[Xautos]

AC Unity was brutal as well with the beheadings. i learned about the French revolution off the back of that, it was even more brutal to read about than i thought. I respect the French a lot more these days than i did before playing Unity. They went through a terrible civil war and then a renaissance under the Emperor Napoleone for a few decades.

[Azami]

引用自 ☠️ Marshall Mason ☠：

Wait...

You never heard of educational game software? I grew up with them. Math, science, history, English, typing, and more.

It is especially helpful for people that learn better interactively, like myself.

Now you please show me a school using CS or AC as a learning medium. I'll wait.

Already pointed that out.

[Ⓥenom Ⓢnake 🐍]

引用自 Xautos：

AC Unity was brutal as well with the beheadings. i learned about the French revolution off the back of that, it was even more brutal to read about than i thought. I respect the French a lot more these days than i did before playing Unity. They went through a terrible civil war and then a renaissance under the Emperor Napoleone for a few decades.

The guillotine saw more action during World War II than it did in the French revolution. I mean not by much, but that's just weird to think about how recently that thing was used.

[Good Night Owl]

Games have some educational value... SOME. And while I definitely can't prove it, I doubt the most successful students were the ones that procrastinated their homework for video games. I'm sure there there's some, but the most successful probably avoided games to focus on work.

If gaming (at least the kind you are talking about) is a primary education, I should be a frakin' lawyer, doctor, soldier, and super hunk all in one package.

[Phirestar]

I remember back in my senior year of high school, when I was especially interested in wanting to get into making video games, I took an elective class that served as an introduction to programming. The software that was used by the school was an animation program of sorts, created by a group of college students (which meant it was constantly breaking, and our teacher even told us that it would happen a lot, at the start of the year), where you'd learn several of the basic commands for programming like conditional statements, as well as how to move and rotate an object in 3D space.

Well, I went home one day and watched a short tutorial series on the ComputerCraft mod for Minecraft, by direwolf20, and in the span of about 1 hour I picked up the entire school year's worth of lessons from that programming class. I was even planning on taking a flash drive with the game on it in and show it off to the other people in my class. (Unfortunately the school was very strict about not wanting to get viruses on their PCs, and I would've had to get it scanned by the office or something. I just didn't feel like bothering with it after that point; it wasn't that important.)

So yes, I do believe that you can learn things by playing video games, such as discovering that taking a basic programming class in high school was entirely redundant.

[Kargor]

引用自 Marc：

what the hell can videogames teach us?

Well, whatever weird stuff happens, when it does, it's likely I've encountered something like that in a game before. So, I won't be panicking.

Details depend on what's happening, but I know that there will be a tutorial and some introduction to what's going on, so I'll start looking for that first. Along the way I'll probably meet an NPC or two who know things -- so while everyone else is still confused with no clue what to do, I'm already a few steps ahead towards fixing the problem.

[𝕎𝔸𝕃𝕋𝔼ℝ]

引用自 Sixtyfivekills：

Video games taught me more about life than all those boring books I was forced to read.

Bruh

[Dracoco OwO]

In several ways it does. But it should be complemented by another source of said knowledge.

[Tom Braider (666)]

引用自 Sixtyfivekills：

引用自 EvilPinata：

Makes about as much sense as half the other stuff the school system teaches. What was the point of reading Romeo and Juliette? I didn't learn anything valuable from that, but I still had to read it three different times.

I hope for your sanity that you never had to read Anna Karenina. I wanted to do the same thing she did at the end of the book when I was reading it.

well i actually read that in 2015 along with Road to calvary and Resurrection by same author Tolstoy. i guess it's s called Resurrection but i'm not sure - the name was "invierea" in romanian.. it's a holiday about that dude christ who got resurrected - or at least that's what i've been told.. there's some things in the book which i don't understand but this is gaming forum so idk if it's the right place.. also imo i wouldn't blame anna, she just followed her heart :(

[the vampire of time and memory]

games can be useful tools in education but obviously not at all the kind of games we play in our free time

[Mythical Ostrich]

There are games that are made specifically to teach, such as Number Munchers. You just named ones that are just entertainment.

[Bergman]

Games made me more "chill"

[Dracoco OwO]

Already mentionned that but games helped my English more than school by a fair margin.

[Sixtyfivekills]

引用自 Dracoco OwO：

Already mentionned that but games helped my English more than school by a fair margin.

Same can be said about movies, though I have to admit that school taught me grammar more than anything.

For example when Shrek walks around with Donkey and says "Ogres are like onions" I thought he was talking about how much he likes to eat onions and not how similar he is to them. I watched it without subtitles so there was no way for me to know what he meant for certain back then.