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- I am a student in Qatar academy in Grade 10 and is participating in the horizon project. The main topic for my horizon project is Games as Pedagogical Platforms which is explaining how video games help us learn and prepare us for the future. Video games have become a major part for lots of the youth’s lives and some adults, such as parents, thing that these video games are corrupting our youth and will ruin our future. They do not know how these games help us to learn and adopt for our future, so one of my main objectives is to promote this idea and explain to people how these games help us. Another advantage of this project is that games are a big business and in fact, one of the largest companies in the world is a gaming company.
My subtopic in Games as Pedagogical Platforms is impact on science, health and environment which is educating people in science such as physics, biology and chemistry and in most cases, physics takes the most part because you can see how motion is affected throughout the game such as falling, where you’re speed increases gradually due to acceleration. Biology could be found in a few games that could teach you stuff like marine biology where you can walk around the sea and explore the fish and plants living in that area, also dissecting of animals are in some rare games. As for health, games take a part in that there are advantages and disadvantages. The advantages are like games that use motion to control and that makes you exercise and have fun at the same time. Other games are addictive and are very bad for the health to the extent that some people died. For environment, there are some games that help in educating people to save the environment and how to save it, which is very useful.
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- Qatar Academy, Qatar
- About Me:
- I am 16 years old, I like playing video games especially PS3 and online games.
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The Horizon Project is a sister to the Flat Classroom Project. This Ning is where teachers and students will connect, communicate and collaborate for the Horizon Project 2008. Co-founders: Julie Lindsay and Vicki Davis
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Personally, I was extremely pleased and lucky to be in this group because I really like video games and play them a lot and probably know the most information about them comparing them with the other groups and it made me interested in IT as well as made me more focused on my work which will eventually be at my advantage and grant me better grades. I am also happy with the fact that video games are being encouraged rather than discouraged during my research throughout the internet and my hopes that would be published to the news that video games are actually a better form of studying.
Yes, this is normal. Can you double check your editing on the Master video list as I was just editing at the same time as you and may have deleted your work!
OK, well let's see if somethign comes through by Monday, otherwise you will have to go ahead without it. We can try and do an outsourced clip within our class.
Don't worry.
Mrs Lindsay
In my opinion, this video is great in some ways but bad in others. First of all, the good thing about this video is that Don Tapscott addresses the issue and raises the awareness of people that education is way too old and needs to be updated since jobs and technology is becoming more advanced while us, students, are still learning the old fashioned way instead of creating a newer, easier way of studying. This is a very positive point about his video and that’s why I think that it is great. But the negative point is that he doesn’t appreciate technology being added in the process; instead he talks about improving the relationship between teachers and students, which could have been done years ago. He didn’t mention that technology does a great contribution in the advancement of education and it can even improve the communication between teachers and students. For example, our school mail helps us to communicate with our teachers whenever we want and wherever we want and this was done with technology.
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