Game on!

I'm taking the gaming continuing education class from Simmons that Beth Gallaway (of the blog Game On: Games in Libraries) is teaching this month.

Today I made nearly a hundred dollars playing Lemonade Stand and I traveled from Independence, Missouri to the west coast on the Oregon Trail using the demo version.

If I were going to get good at these games I would need to do one or more of the following:

• keep track of things by keeping records or writing journal entries


• compare my records and experiences with other people, like classmates


• play the game with a partner

While improving my game, I would also be practicing and learning collaboration, logical thinking, strategic thinking, reading, writing, arithmetic, microeconomics, and (in the case of Oregon Trail) history. Not bad for a game.

Could games take the place of on-line tutorials at library websites?     #

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