Foot: Learning by Playing: Video Games in the Classroom

I really found this quote from the article interesting: "And while students at the school are put through the usual rigors of studying pre-algebra, basic physics, ancient civilizations and writing, they do it inside interdisciplinary classes with names like Codeworlds — a hybrid of math and English class — where the quests blend skills from different subject areas (pg. 2)" We all know that certain subjects are quite easy to mix together (History and English, Math and Science), but I never really considered how math and English may go together. However, the article didn't fully explain this, but from what I draw from the quote, students may have to solve math or English problems in order to progress in the quest. Whether I'm right or not, I think making learning seem like a quest (whether it's a quest in game like in this article or something else) is a great idea. It implies that learning is worth doing because there's some prize at the end.

I loved Akahr's quote at the end: "I am imagining the future." I thought this was really striking of him because it shows what we all hope. We want our classrooms to be technologically friendly, of course, and we have to learn how to do this. Of course our education classes help with this and can give us some idea of what to do, but I don't think we will really learn until we are actually out there doing it ourselves.