Those who work with or develop for the Educational markets and/or learning games, you may find this article of interest.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/19/magaz ... ml?_r=1&hpQuote:
Learning Games
By SARA CORBETT
Published: September 15, 2010
[excerpt]WHAT IF TEACHERS GAVE UP the vestiges of their educational past, threw away the worksheets, burned the canon and reconfigured the foundation upon which a century of learning has been built? What if we blurred the lines between academic subjects and reimagined the typical American classroom so that, at least in theory, it came to resemble a typical American living room or a child’s bedroom or even a child’s pocket, circa 2010 — if, in other words, the slipstream of broadband and always-on technology that fuels our world became the source and organizing principle of our children’s learning? What if, instead of seeing school the way we’ve known it, we saw it for what our children dreamed it might be: a big, delicious video game?
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