Yeah

Basically, at the end of a year, they have to send a save file from ZOO Tycoon

Games are incredibly effective teaching tools

I always wanted to know "why does this number that says how much money i can spend not match the one on the yearly statement saying how much money i have?"
(didn't know what the yearly statement was, just that it poped up every now and then and was where the "get more money" button was :P)

Games are the best way to learn, but public schools are so bad at just creating or buying games because "muh authority as a teacher will be undermined"

Teachers need better vetting

not only that, I don't remember where but games are also a version of WORK

just made to properly reward the behavior you want. (assumeing it's a well made game)

They teach kids to be task orientated

I will definitely play games with my kids, just have to figure out which.

minecraft helped me learn my base 8s.

@ARockRaider Best math ever.

well more like base 2s or what ever.

Five stacks burns 4 coal blocks.

This website improved my mental arithmetics high score from around 20 to around 50 in the span of less than two months. Bet schools will want to use that, right? ... right?
https://arithmetic.zetamac.com/

but I knew a stack was 64, a half of that was 32, and so on.

oh, it's a flash card program!

that's amazing!

256, 128, 64, 32, 16, 8, 4, 2, 1

Playing Starcraft online taught me English.

Cause I wanted to communicate with French people.

Not Korean?

I learned more English in the span of half a year than in four years of school.

I learned how to spell "electrons" form a game called "stratosphere"
was part of a cheat code.

Wait, you couldn't spell electrons right? :>

Best skill gamers get, patience

did i just miss spell it?

lol 😄

No ironically you didn't misspell 'electrons', but 'from'

dangit.

TBH, English spelling is retarded, so you are forgiven

i'm not a good speller.

I misspelled a ton of words even though I was the bookworm in my class

that it is, just wish there was a better option because spoken english is the best!

yah, people seem to think reading and writeing are related, not as much as one would think they are.

spoken is also retarded because there are so many of them and the standard variety proves useless in many a context

I like how overly self-conscious everyone is now over their spelling

I try to be anyway unless someone is being a jerk about it.

But yeah, seriously. Look at this.
https://www.urbo.com/content/school-dazed-why-you-forgot-everything-you-learned-in-school/

- We forget what we don't research ourselves.
- We forget what we don't use.
So why don't we scratch years off public school?

Why do we make children repeat classes?