Sunday 8 July 2012

Gaming for purpose or for pleasure (or for nothing.)

Many of my hobbies see me sitting on my backside. I took a decision this year to change my gaming chair for thin wooden kitchen furniture. My thinking was that I would balance my gaming time with more active hobbies. This hasn't necessarily been the case. I have spent many hours in a thin wooden chair, and it is a miracle that my back hasn't trashed itself.

There is something about gaming and imbibing other bits of literature that can improve. But for what point? And for what purpose? Shouldn't gaming, at times, just be a piece of distraction? Why should significance be sought in all things?

One of my students wishes to begin a Minecraft club. I question the value of this club when I consider how much time it would take to do so. But I asked for him to show me a presentation, which he created. And I see it as my job to facilitate enterprise, even beyond my own doubts.

So, does anyone else run a Minecraft club? And to what extent do you make the educational value explicit?




 
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