Are Violent Video Games Adeuately Preparing our Children for the Apocolypse? - 4 views

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  #1 Chris Sasiadek on 19 Mar 09

   

  http://www.theonion.com/content/video/are_violent_video_games
  
  While watching the clip at the above link, think about how curricula are written. Are they teaching children skills that are universal? Skills that are specific to the world as it exists today? Skills that we anticipate will be in demand in the future? Skill that are already antiquated?
  
  Also think about the classroom to real world connection. We are asked to train students to answer questions on a narrow curricula based on a narrow number of pre-approved question stems. Will children be able to apply those skills in a infinite permutation of scenarios or is their mastery of standards confined to the multiple choice questions and BCRs based on a finite number of question stems? Will children know how to kill a zombie using a fragmentation grenade or just press buttons?
  
  ---And just for fun:---
  
  http://www.theonion.com/content/video/in_the_know_are_our_children

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner"><a href="http://www.theonion.com/content/video/are_violent_video_games" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.theonion.com/content/video/are_violent_video_games</a> <br /> <br /> While watching the clip at the above link, think about how curricula are written. Are they teaching children skills that are universal? Skills that are specific to the world as it exists today? Skills that we anticipate will be in demand in the future? Skill that are already antiquated? <br /> <br /> Also think about the classroom to real world connection. We are asked to train students to answer questions on a narrow curricula based on a narrow number of pre-approved question stems. Will children be able to apply those skills in a infinite permutation of scenarios or is their mastery of standards confined to the multiple choice questions and BCRs based on a finite number of question stems? Will children know how to kill a zombie using a fragmentation grenade or just press buttons? <br /> <br /> ---And just for fun:--- <br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.theonion.com/content/video/in_the_know_are_our_children" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.theonion.com/content/video/in_the_know_are_our_children</a></div>

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