Mini Review #4

I could use Mad City Mystery with a few modifications to our local area in my fourth grade computer classes. This games would incorporate some of the fourth grade science standards.

These games are extremely beneficial, offering many students opportunities they may never have. This gives them background information to use in other educational situations, giving them prior knowledge to build on as they get older. AR games offer opportunities to students in poverty and rural areas they would otherwise not have. The detriments I can see are convincing administrators and/or parents that what students are doing is educational, and not just "wasting time playing games."

I could take the poverty simulation presented by Leslie and use it in my career class. Students could look at jobs without h.s. eduction and apply this to a poverty simulation in various ways...as students, as married with no kids, as married with kids and finally as single parents. This would again help to emphasize the importance of education and help students see what adults in poverty go through, whether it be their own families or others in their school community.