Week in Gaming: Play school: a curriculum for video game studies

By Kate Gray

Apparently – and excuse me as I adjust my Grumpy Old Man hat – you can now play video games as part of a school curriculum. Sure, that school is in Norway, where they are progressive and cooler than actual snow (of which they have plenty), but It’s a sign that the world is going to hell in a handbasket, even though things like global warming and Donald Trump are infinitely more indicative of that. Let’s all just keep getting angry at video games, much like cavemen were scared of fire back when that was all the rage.

Ok, time to take off the Grumpy Old Man hat. It makes me cranky.

One pioneering Norwegian high school has introduced an elective eSports course as part of its curriculum. But I ask: why stop there? Imagine a future where children are educated solely by video games.

But what would the curriculum look like? If we are going to teach through games, we’d better do it right. So, here I present to you my plan for the world’s first video game school.

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Source:: techradar.com – Gaming