On 30/04/06, Radenski, Atanas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I tend to disagree about the "fun" need.
Kids are not interested for long about video games (or educational activity) which are just "fun". The game has to be difficult enough to challenge them and when they master a level they have no envy to do it again just because it's colorful, multimedia, violent, sexy, etc.
As Seymor Papert explains I believe the real challenge is to make education *hard-fun* for each pupil (which is very different of making it "fun"):
http://www.papert.org/articles/HardFun.html
francois
Darren Payne wrote:
> Like I said at the start kids want games, fun and
> multimedia - colour, music and animation / video
I tend to disagree about the "fun" need.
Kids are not interested for long about video games (or educational activity) which are just "fun". The game has to be difficult enough to challenge them and when they master a level they have no envy to do it again just because it's colorful, multimedia, violent, sexy, etc.
As Seymor Papert explains I believe the real challenge is to make education *hard-fun* for each pupil (which is very different of making it "fun"):
http://www.papert.org/articles/HardFun.html
francois
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