Friday, 6 March 2009
Africa and the use of games in education
E learning within Africa as the website claims has been put in place in order to provide special training that is “affordable and accessible.” The website illustrates how a game can be used by individuals to allow them to take the role of a district medical officer, epidemiologist etc. This pariticualr type of video game “offer a learning platform that enables teaching to be associated with true-to-life situations” giving people the opportunity to gather vital knowledge on yellow fever which may otherwise have been disregarded. Whilst video games here are obviously a good it is important to consider that there are differences between gaining knowledge through the internet and gaining information form experience and practical work which is essential part in medical learning.
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'Education' seems such a slippery concept in these accounts doesn't it? Sometimes it seems to be personal hygiene training, and sometimes it is advanced calculus; sometimes new pest control, other times a foreign language. Is it helpful for understanding the issues involved for these very different fields to be discussed as though pedagogically they are all the same thing?
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