Learning with videogames.

Throughout the semester we have been reading several articles that present us video games as something more than just a game. With some video games that are aimed at learning or focus on a subject matter like Citizen Science, which tries to teach the user about the impact of pollution in our environment and tries to make us conscious of it by given the player evidence and how to make an argument in order to save the lake; I could see what Squire’s article was trying to say on how video games are a learning tool. But for example I did not think that could be applied to a game like Super Mario.

 After Monday’s class I could see how in their own particular way every game teaches us something by just the mechanics of it. With super Mario we learn about cause-effect action, if we hit the square with interrogation sign we get something in return and then we applied that knowledge throughout the game.   Ultimately I think videogames are a very useful learning tool and in time more people are going to realize it, because like Squire wrote on his article we learn by doing, whether is a game design with the purpose of teaching something in particular or just pass the time with; video games at the end help the player develop skills.