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Educational Games: Crash Course Games #15

Educational Games: Crash Course Games #15

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Chess, Number Munchers, The Oregon Trail! Today, we-re going to talk about gaming-s role in education. Now technically all games have an educational component, because games are defined by their rules and players have to learn those rules to participate. But of course there is a subset of games designed to teach players skills useful within but but also outside game worlds. And these kinds of games have actually been around for thousands of years! So today we-re going to focus a few educational game successes, talk about how they got there, and what they have done for us in the process. All attributed imagery was found on Flickr and licensed by cc by 2. 0 Want some Crash Course Games merch? Check out our beautiful Snake-inspired mugs! Also
Date: 2022-04-04

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I remember learning the characteristics of all the Troggles in number munchers.
Reggie (regular) was the first one and would only move in a straight line unless it hit a safe zone changing the value of numbers it cam across.
Helper was the second one and it acted much like Reggie except for removing all the numbers.
Worker was the opposite of helper. Not only did it change numbers it was on but added numbers on the blak spots you already munched
Smarty was my least favorite as it would always chase you for some time before it finally moved off the edge.
Bashful was one that would move away if you moved towards it. However if you stayed at the edges too long it will snatch you up. This seems like the less threatening but you soon learn it will get you if you are not careful. I learn to fear the walls because of it.

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The thing with Chess and academic achivement is a case were correlation does not equal causation since, it has been proven that there is little to no skill transfer between skills (Chess makes you good at math, logic and so on. So don't feel bad if you don't play Chess or actions games or whatever, you can still do well on school or anything you want - ( Sorry for bad english, it is not my native language)
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Donkey Kong Jr. Math is indeed fun.
Please don-t tell me your going to play the actual -Mario is Missing- or -Mario-s Time Machine-, though they are some of Nintendo-s only educational games they had poor sales. Let-s also not bring up -Sonics Schoolhouse- lol

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If you're trying to learn a new language, try replaying a video game in that language. That way you will have prior experience with the game's mechanics and will (hopefully) learn grammar and vocabulary of the new language.
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Well, too focused on educational games may also be addictive and can have bad results. I usually find some kids playing educational games for many hours and often no longer do their chores or play outside with their friends.
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I remember a frog game similar to that one, but it had more categories than just math. In fact, I think it was newer than the math one. I played it at Strawberry Elementary School in the late nineties.
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The educational games I played as a kid were the Dr Brain series and a half-hearted go at Apogee's Math Rescue and Word Rescue (because I was a bit too old for them when they came out.
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Why watch this episode of multiple games to play or go to school when you can just load up one of the good versions of Civilization and learn about history, math, etc.
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The best educational game I ever played is Infinifactory, a puzzle game where you build factory assembly lines, came out not that long ago from the creator of Spacechem.
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This episode reminds me very much of my school days. Only thing that was missing was the opportunity to play Star Trek on the PET when I finished my maths.
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