Innovation

I've come across yet another article, extolling the virtues of classrooms using video games to help students teach. This time, the students are learning to create their own educational games, which younger grades will then use.

My personal favorite quote from the article: "When you teach other people, you strengthen 90 percent of what you know.”

Read more, at http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6712738.html?industryid=47075

"Turn off the TV, put away the video games, and read to your child."
-President Obama

President Obama's "Educate to Innovate" program is getting a response from educational computer game companies. There's a mild irony here, but it's also a wonderful illustration of the country (and world)'s current move toward technology as an educational source.