I love the idea of learning from games! There are a lot of edtech companies out there trying to bring technology into the classroom, but I find they tend to be pretty gimmicky. They slap on nice images onto apps that are essentially just glorified flashcards. It makes sense that teachers don't trust them.
But I do think there's potential to improve the quality of the games. One of my favorites as a child was Treasure Mathstorm. It was simple and taught math, but as a kid I didn't think of it much as an "education" game -- it was just something I played for fun. And that was in 1996 - imagine what we could do now! We need more of those out there.
That's so true, a lot of games are also money making businesses. Nothing wrong with that really, but only if they spend a bit more time on the education instead of the money part, that would've been better.
Yeah, nothing beats old games. I know graphics are nicer these days, but games those days were fun and educational to a certain extent.
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