News hit the game waves yesterday as a joint venture between Electronic Arts (sometimes Satan, sometimes the Chosen One) and NESTA's Futurelab was announced, kicking off a study that aims to put games in European classrooms. From the release:
The study will look at what children can learn from computer games, how best to introduce games into the classroom and what changes might be required to make them relevant to the educational environment.
We'll have to wait until August 2006 to find out children's and educators' attitudes towards games in the classroom among other titbits of knowledge, but hurrah to the UK for funding such an adventure in this odd climate of anti-games nonsense.
