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Blake Davis
2/12/2012 10:56:06 am
Okay I think gaming would really change education in many ways. Well for one if your going to be educated by playing a game students I dont think in my opinion would want to ever be educated by an actual teacher again. I am not really sure how I can make Beowulf gamer friendly. I am still thinking about what app/game/medium that I would use for it also. I dont really no what app/game/medium I would use right now. I would have to look at the different options I would have.
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josh mcnemar
2/15/2012 11:35:02 am
i totally agree. i really don't think the teachers would be teaching as much anyway it would be a more hands on environment. i mean an actual teacher would still be needed for discipline ect.... but most of the actual teaching would be done by the game. for the app or whatever you could use for your project why dont you just use minecraft? if you ask me thasts the best option or you could use scratch.
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Donny Wyatt
2/13/2012 01:15:46 am
The way I think that gameing can give good education. It can develop hand eye condensation. And to be honest with u if we could play videos games for homework I would do my homework every day. And I think haven videos games helps u with Borden when u are siting at the house it can also give u ideas to do stuff.
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Tyler hagan
2/16/2012 09:57:34 pm
I agree and disagree with you Donny. I disagree that it will help our hand eye cordenation. But I do agree that I would do my homework more often if it was games
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Tyler hagan
2/16/2012 10:00:39 pm
I agree and disagree with you Donny. I agree that if education was more involved with games, that I'd probably do my homework more often. I disagree with you that it would help our hand eye cordenation.
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Marriah Walters
2/13/2012 01:33:13 am
I think gaming can change education by making it a fun way for students to learn things. Usually learning is boring but if your playing a game that teaches you it wild make kids want to learn more(: making Beowulf friendly could be by making it like Beowulf but using it differently. Like different people/ things in the same situation. Idk minecraft I guesssem.
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Kelsey Marinelli
2/16/2012 12:07:29 am
I agree with you Mariah. Learning is usually boring. But with us using gameswemaybe able to make people understand Beowulf better. I think that if we had used games to learn aboutbeowulf I would have understood it better.
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Jamie Hall
2/16/2012 01:03:54 am
I agree. Video games make everything funner. And it makes it easier to focus too. And I like your idea as well.
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Kelsey Marinelli
2/13/2012 01:40:35 am
I think that gaming changes education because I dont really see the education in gaming. All I see in gaming is fun, and in education I dont really see very much fun. I really dont know what gaming app that I will use because I have never really played around with making a game. So I really dont know how they really work.
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Marriah Walters
2/14/2012 01:47:51 am
I agree with marinelli! I mean I also am not too sure about how to make a game cus I also have never dine that. I'm not sure of an app too, I just picked one. Hah!
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Caleb Goss
2/13/2012 06:32:13 am
I believe gaming connecting education can change learning drastically. The thing is you're doing something the kids grew up and like, you're connecting their reality with education. Making Beowulf game friendly would be very interactive, but with all the limits restrictions our distric sets that's very tough. The game I hope to use I have no idea because I don't know any for Beowulf. Wouldn't hurt to create one. The reason is because it's be fun to create it.
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Kiana Mahjub
2/15/2012 11:18:19 pm
I completely agree. Connecting gaming and education is a great opportunity for kids who love to game. They could get the best of both worlds.
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cody richmond
2/13/2012 08:01:57 am
Gaming could change education in a good way and a bad way. The good way would be that it would make learning more interactive, and fun, and make them more entertained. It could be bad because it could keep kids distracted. A game or app i would use would be Beowulf the game. I chose this because its about beowulf and i could learn more about it.
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Caleb Goss
2/13/2012 10:11:10 pm
I agree with you completely. Personally it's more of a distraction and I can prove I have restrictions on my now. The thing is you can't just take this and wanna do what's right it's tempting to dothe wrong thing and we usually do. This was the best I've read so far good job Cody.
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Brooke edmister
2/13/2012 10:14:35 pm
I think the gaming is a good and new way of learning and teaching. The teachers can teach it to us in different ways. We can have more fun doing our projects and learning. I would us scratch to design the game and have fun new ways of playing it.
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Kendall Mitchell
2/15/2012 05:46:00 am
I agree with Brooke. It will be more fun if we make a game and learn from it. Scratch is a good game website too.
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Liz Carroll
2/15/2012 07:41:14 am
I agree. It will be easier and funnier.
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Hannah
2/13/2012 10:15:45 pm
I think it would be a good thing, but idk how much it could actually help educate you. Though people would be way more into it then traditional work. Idk how I would make it game friendly because it seems like it would be a very gory game, because the realy Beowulf game is.
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megan sanders
2/13/2012 10:16:17 pm
I think Gaming could be a good and bad thing.
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Leslie Herring
2/13/2012 10:16:36 pm
I think gaming would be a good alternative for learning. I haven't found a good app for Beowulf or a game
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Jason Riley
2/13/2012 10:20:33 pm
Gaming could change education Big Time. It would help students learn better in my opinion because they would be enjoying learning, they would be something they like to do. I hope we do mine craft because I already play it and I like to play it. It will be fun and we will get more done in my opinion.
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Jonfm
2/14/2012 01:42:15 am
How Could Gaming Change education? I mean You Could use some to show kids to be creative, I know one company (called Valve) had kids come in and they tought them how to use there level maker and Let them Desighn there own levels.
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Joe Thomas
2/14/2012 01:43:46 am
I think this would be awesome! It would also change education by kids being themselves. This could be am easy grade for people that are doing bad in here. I would also like to do minecraft for the gaming.
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Gordon Witt
2/14/2012 01:45:51 am
I think the gaming could change a lot of thing.Like to learning and teaching you how to do things. How you do team work. You have to learning to work with people.
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Elijah isaacs
2/14/2012 01:50:07 am
Gaming could change education a lot. In my opinion it would help kids enjoy learning. They would be able to work a something they enjoy. I hope we choose a game like mine craft cause it can somewhat be educational
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Bradley Broughton
2/16/2012 08:43:34 am
I agree with Elijah. Video games can make leaning more fun. Video games are more enjoyable than reading a book to most people. I think if it is done properly video games could be a nice way to learn.
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haley Lawson
2/14/2012 11:55:12 pm
I think that some video games, as long as they are educational and or non-violent, are good. Electronics are the future, if we don't keep up then we will not be able to keep up. Growing up I had the DS and Leappad I think that helped my education. Beowulf would be like build cities to their glory, feed the poor and protect them from mean bandits. Rule with strong hand and build a powerful empire. Then live the life of a king. The gaming app I guess would be like a regular gaming app??? Don't really know that part.
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Kendall Mitchell
2/15/2012 05:43:48 am
Gaming could change education because it could make it more fun to learn. Some kids may understand things better in a game. We will make beowulf gamer friendly by making it school appropriate. We haven't really found a game yet but we want to do one on the Internet. I think people will enjoy a game more than reading it.
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Liz Carroll
2/15/2012 07:40:19 am
My group, we are doing a board game. It will be fun to bring Beowulf into a game. It will help us understand better because today's society is technology, games, stuff kids are interested in. It will be a fun project. Probably hard though.
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Kiana Mahjub
2/15/2012 09:41:33 am
I think connecting education and gaming together is a great idea. This will give gaming kids a better opportunity to learn more and still be entertained. Having a little brother who loves video games more than life, I can see where giving him an educational game would make a difference.
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Cory Hatfield
2/15/2012 10:04:27 am
I think gaming can change education. I have learned a lot from gaming. I learned problem solving, money skills, communicating with others online. I would use Minecraft to build the landscapes.
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josh mcnemar
2/15/2012 11:30:23 am
I think gaming can change the learning environment completely. I mean if you're a teenager playing video games comes natural. If you can relate beowulf or say algebra or the civil war, or chemistry i think we would pay a whole lot more attention. to make beowulf more gamer friendly you could build a beowulf city in minecraft.
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KD Webb
2/16/2012 01:23:47 am
I agree with Mcnemar, today things like technology, it just comes natural to us, especially to the teenagers. Actually, it wouldn't JUST Be a Good idea for Beowulf, but for ALL classes.
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Ben Powell
2/15/2012 09:31:17 pm
I think that it will help people. Because kids learn when they play games. Because they can learn hands on. Some of them learn better when they get talked to because they have to have the sricked proses.
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Cody M.
2/16/2012 05:21:43 am
I agree with Ben. If kids have fun while they learn it will make them want to learn more. If games are made to be educational or used as projects then it is not only fun but easier to learn. I think it's a good idea to use games to help people learn.
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Cody M.
2/15/2012 11:04:50 pm
I think gaming would make projects more interesting and fun for students. It might also seems to make work feel less like work and more like playing. Itd encourage students to do their work more often as well.
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Jason Riley
2/16/2012 10:42:03 am
I agree with Cody on this. It would make projects more interesting because you would get to play games within the work that way students could enjoy it more. Students would actually look forward to working because they would enjoy it so much.
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Shelby Dixon
2/15/2012 11:48:20 pm
Gaming could be a bad thing or good thing for educating people. Yes, it will make it more fun but some people will just play around and not work. Gaming could also make me people understand Beowulf more. I plan on using mine craft because Brandon and Gordon know what their doing with that game.
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Shelby Dixon
2/15/2012 11:49:44 pm
I agree with Kendall. Games could make people want to learn more. A game on the Internet would be a perfect idea. This would help so many people to understand Beowulf and make it fun.
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Rachel montgomery
2/16/2012 12:09:15 am
I think that gaming could change education. I would play a game if it was educational. I think that it would be fun and it would make more students to do their work. In our game, we are going to have questions on Angelo-saxon culture, and beowulf. We chose to do a oars game, because it would be fun, and some people learn better with visual things.
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Jill
2/16/2012 07:08:57 am
I agree kids learn better when they see it and when they can make the next move. "game wise and life wise" either way they would learn and have with it.
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Jamie Hall
2/16/2012 01:01:56 am
First of all, this project was a wonderful idea. I'm thoroughly enjoying it so far. Gaming can change education for the better because most everyone loves games. If its a game, people get competitive and determined to win, therefor they'll try harder to understand the topic. We don't know what we'll use as of now, but it'll probably be something off of the Internet becuase we want to do an RPG. We'll try hard to make the game something that's both easy to understand and fun.
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KD Webb
2/16/2012 01:21:06 am
Gaming can DEFINATLEY change the learning enviroment. You see, reading Beowulf made me sick. I mean, the moral of the story was good, and I'm sure I would've liked it IF I hadntve have to have read and done so many work sheets and notes, just so I could understand it. Now maybe if it was a video or board game, I would've probably been happy to learn about it. I'm sure lots of other kids are like this, too. The world is very technology based, and its only getting more that way because its faster, and it makes things ALOT easier.
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Amanda Baker
2/16/2012 11:50:37 am
I am defiantly agreeing with you. We did a lot of work on Beowulf before, and I honestly don't think a lot of people enjoyed it. Having to really think about every sentence was a bit of a challenge. Maybe if we had added some games and fun activities every now and then, it would have made it better for everyone.
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Nikki Crowe
2/16/2012 09:31:24 pm
Yes I agree that gaming would make this very very easy. It was a bit of a challenge to break every sentence but with gaming it would be so much easier. People would want to play this game so it would be fun for everybody. I would definitely say people did not enjoy reading and working on Beowulf like we did.
KD Webb
2/16/2012 01:25:45 am
Oh yeah, and we could help make Beowulf less scary and more gamer friendly, we could make a cute little board game or something.
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Brandon Barnett
2/16/2012 01:30:51 am
Gaming can change education. It can be fun for students that get really bored in class."me" I think most people will like this new project. I would like to do minecraft.
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Cody C.
2/16/2012 03:05:12 am
Gaming could be good for learning and it could be bad at the sametime. You can used them inappropriate at the same time. But you can meet new people at the same time.I do it sometimes.
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Mark Agee
2/16/2012 09:33:38 am
I agree with you Caudill. Gaming can help education. It could also be bad because of immaturity. But everyone can be immature. You just gotta control it and be respectfull!
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yadira:)
2/16/2012 05:36:17 am
i actually like voilent games.
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Nancy Shepard
2/16/2012 05:41:05 am
Gaming could help educate because alot of people play games & it could help them better understand. But then again if you learn by playing games alot , you wont be ready for the real world . Gaming with beowulf is a good idea because its hard to understand and playing games could make it easier!
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Tyler Rose
2/16/2012 06:10:25 am
I think gaming can change the learning environment for the better. It would make it more interesting and a lot more funny to do. I think that it would help people to learn and help to hold their attention.
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Jill
2/16/2012 07:06:36 am
I think games would help out a lot because on the game you might have a competitive side to win. also to succeed you have to want to win and in addition to that you have to know what your doing. Its fun and a way for everyone to learn without knowing it. I personally would probably do my work if it was on a fun game of my choice. And ifyounthink about it all we want to do or do is play games on our iPads. If some one was to ask what we're playing we could tell them everything for what is it about or what is the objective. In the games you have to teach your self to learn and that's a technique you would need to learn the game. To make Beowulf a fun game I might do something with shoots and ladders at him a epic hero trying to make it to the top were Grendel and his mother is and that is how you win the game.
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Cody Richmond
2/16/2012 08:16:46 am
I agree with Cory on this one. For the fact that his answer makes sense. Most game these days have puzzles in them and work your mind. Also you can talk to your friends online. I would also use minecraft because it is fun to play.
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Bradley Broughton
2/16/2012 08:41:51 am
I think that video games can be educational only in certain ways. Some games can teach you to solve puzzles and handle money. Other games can teach you physics. Minecraft is a nice way for you to use your imagination to build a world based off of a project, like how we're doing Beowulf right now.
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Kali Lakes
2/16/2012 08:49:18 am
Gaming is a good approach for learning. Where people today are usually on a video game at home, it may be a better way of learning for them. The group im in, we plan on making a board game. It seems more hands on.
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Jodeci Collins
2/17/2012 03:31:36 am
This is so true.. We are already so advanced with technology and video games that if you put our school work into a video game, it would be easy as pie to learn.
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Kelsee burchfield
2/16/2012 09:12:52 am
I believe gaming can change education because the students won't get bored as much, because they will be up around creating an awesome game that is a grade and that you can play. I don't know how I could change Beowulf into a friendly gamer yet. And I would like to create a board game but I'm un sure yet.
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Mark Agee
2/16/2012 09:32:21 am
I think Gaming can change education for the better because I think everyone likes gaming. If they don't they probably haven't ever done it. I will use minecraft with my group to make The mead-hall and Grendels mother's cave.
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Kelsee burchfield
2/16/2012 09:38:18 am
I agree with Donny. That gaming can be a fun, good change to education. People would have more fun With gaming. And that also kids would rather play a game for homework instead of book work.
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Ashlee Adams
2/16/2012 10:42:50 am
I think gaming can change education by making it more fun to learn. Because who wants to sit there and learn things the boring way? Not me. But when you introduce a game, the student will have a bigger interest most likely. My group and I are making Beowulf gamer friendly by putting a lot of the characters in our game, and also places that are in the story, like the "mead-hall." the game that we have chosen to use is a board game. A board game is a classic. It's going to be fun and you have to travel through all the places and get past the evil people. But while you're having fun, you'll be learning at the same time!
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Ashlee Adams
2/16/2012 10:44:17 am
I agree with KD. Learning about Beowulf was kind of boring. The story was good and all but I think it would be a lot easier and more fun if we would have played games and watch videos and movies. It makes it a lot more fun for all of us.
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Amanda Baker
2/16/2012 11:44:09 am
Gaming can change schools for the better. Adding games gives us the advantage of having fun, I would much rather play a game than be given a lecture or having to take notes. This new project allows us to kind of incorporate our thoughts and opinions on Beowulf, and the fact that it is more hands on work is a lot better for me. Our group choose to make a board game. We have big plans for it, using Angelo-Saxon culture and Beowulf questions. I think it's going to be fun for everyone.
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Nikki Crowe
2/16/2012 09:26:52 pm
Gaming could be a great way to learn things if it is actually educational. Especially with Beowulf because not everybody wants to read that when some people don't even know what their saying the story. So I think gaming would get people interested so they would definitely love playing the game so they would learn. I don't know what I would do but I would make it interesting and fun to play.
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Samantha Sonnemann
2/16/2012 09:44:21 pm
I'm not really choosing a thing to do with technology. I choose to do a board game. I don't like using gaming things to create a game on something were learning about. I'm not good with technology, that's mostly why I choose a board game.
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Candace carpenter
2/16/2012 09:48:37 pm
Gaming is a good thing & a new way of learning. Teachers can teach us how to use it in different ways. It's a lot more fun doing projects that way & using things like that.
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Candace
2/16/2012 09:52:55 pm
I agree with Cody. It would make projects a lot more interesting We would get to play games while we working on the project. that way we couldn't get in trouble for playing games.
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Tyler hagan
2/16/2012 09:55:49 pm
Gaming will change education alot! Gaming will get students more involved and more motivated to learn. Gaming is starting to take over. Every where you look there's something about a game. Games for Beowulf can be gamer friendly. There don't have to be blood and gore to make Beowulf . It would just make it more real. The type I think I'll use is World of Warcraft!
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victoria shearer
2/16/2012 09:57:16 pm
i think gaming will change education. I think kids would be more willng to pay attention and its a more creative way to learn then doing book work and reading the story. my group chose a board game because its more creative and hands on. making a board game allows you to show other people how you view beowulf and maybe help others understand it better.
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victoria shearer
2/16/2012 10:00:04 pm
i agree with ashlee adams. nobody wants to learn something in a boring way. because i think you dont really learn anything or absorb the information. are groups are both using a board game with many characters from beowulf. and you will have fun playing the game and learning more about beouwulf.
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Summer Johnson
2/16/2012 10:03:09 pm
I think if students started to be taught by a game instead of a teacher, it would change a lot. It would probably make it to where we wouldn't want a teacher anymore. I haven't really decided how imgoing to make the game yet I'm still thinking abou it.
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Heather Lainhart
2/16/2012 10:04:34 pm
I think that gaming would change education , for the better or it could be worsen . I mean gaming could help improve how we learn education better . To make it more gamer friendly I think that they should have less fighting scenes, less killing , and less blood . We don't know our app yet, but we are trying to find one.
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Heather Lainhart
2/16/2012 10:06:54 pm
I agree with Amanda . Gaming would give us a advantage to have fun , but still doing our work . It could help us learn more about different cultures , but still having fun. It allows us to apply our options to the subject .
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Jessica Angel
2/16/2012 10:35:06 pm
I believe making a game for Beowulf would be both good and bad. Good because people would be interested in Beowulf and may understand it more. Bad because all people do is sit on their butt all day and play video games and it could get them out of shape. Technology today has had a good and bad effect on us, but I believe that making Beowulf into a game would be a great idea. It would help us understand it better. Even though it is hard making it.
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Allison Chasteen
2/16/2012 10:42:45 pm
I think it will change education because people will have fun while learning. Me, personally I'd rather be making games then having to listen to teachers talk all the time and taking notes. I love hands on projects, it's an easier way to learn and it compares it to real life stuff. So, just like being in here weds more hands on stuff!
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Zach king
2/17/2012 01:26:39 am
I think that the best way to make beuwulf more trendily is to make it interacitve
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Zach king
2/17/2012 01:27:08 am
I agree whith Liz carol.
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Roy Miller
2/17/2012 01:27:49 am
Personally I don't think gaming can change education as much as it already has , like board games for math or maps for social studies online. Beowulf can't be that friendly for gamers because it's a brutal Poem about death. I'm using minecraft for this project to show the mead-hall, and other places in the epic Poem.
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Kelsey Rogers
2/17/2012 01:39:21 am
I think that gaming really would make the eduction better. Most teenagers are always playing some kind of video game, so if they made games like MW3 more educational I think kids would be a lot smarter. I think that most students would actually do their work and understand things better if most school work was made like games.
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Justine
2/17/2012 01:40:29 am
Ithink that it wouldn't help kids, just the fact that it's basically teaching kids how to play games, or ge on an iPad! I think it is fine with out the games! I think it is just fine without the games and stuff lie that.
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zach grant
2/17/2012 01:41:25 am
i think if kids were to learn through gaming it would be easier for them.Learning would be more fun and entertaining.It would go by so much faster. i dont think as many people would dread school.
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Dylan O'Donnell
2/17/2012 01:49:09 am
Idont think it would educate or uneducate anythuing about someone or anything like that i think it would just show people about the tast youre on and give them information on it
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Dylan O'Donnell
2/17/2012 01:50:12 am
I agree with Roy MIller
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Jodeci Collins
2/17/2012 03:29:06 am
I dont really think making these games would change the way we learn much anymore. We already depend so much on technology for learning. And we have used alot of educational games like study island for example. My group is using minecraft.. We are building a mead hall and also the place that Grendel's mother lives. Beowulf is pretty gruesome, I guess we could make the game less violent to make it more gamer friendly.
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Scott Lamb
2/17/2012 04:23:30 am
Personaly i dont think gaming can be educational. But the gaming project will be fun. we are going to make the beowulf game fun by making it humorous. we are ging to use a video of ourselves acting out the game, and have people with controllers act like theyre playing the game.
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