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Wednesday 8th April 2009 3:51 pm

Students, Put Down Those Pencils and Pick Up Joysticks!

In a March 25 op-ed in the New York Daily News, leaders of the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop argue that video games are not mindless distractions and can help U.S. students reclaim their seat at the head of the class.

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Michael Levine, executive director, and Ann Thai, assistant director of the center, write that educators can continue to “fight the tide by grousing about how pervasive video games are, or build on the many beneficial ways they’re rewiring the way kids think and engage the world.”

They single out the Quest to Learn school in New York, funded by MacArthur and led by grantee Katie Salen, as a needed innovative approach to learning in the digital era. The school will use game design principles to create engaging learning experiences for students.

Read the Daily News op-ed here.

For a more developed article on this topic, click here.

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