Playstation in school ?

[patsu]

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=paPlaystationWed1700PlayStation&show_article=1

I toyed with the idea of running educational titles on Playstation before, but never really gave it any serious thought. All I can say for now is, "Oh boy, Sony is all over the map".

 

[Skrying]

Not exactly sure why this is news other than it is being run on a Playstation. Teachers, if they could (had the skills or proper software) could already make lessons for students to take home and work on their computers (more people with computers than Playstations anyway). Unless Sony plans on making advanced teaching software then this really will not go anywhere.

 

[crazygambit]

Not exactly sure why this is news other than it is being run on a Playstation. Teachers, if they could (had the skills or proper software) could already make lessons for students to take home and work on their computers (more people with computers than Playstations anyway). Unless Sony plans on making advanced teaching software then this really will not go anywhere.

Acroding to the article:

"Sony are interested in developing education software and we are delighted that they are carrying out their PlayStation pilot at Holyhead."

So maybe they are commited to it. It's at least mildly interesting and maybe they'll come up with something cool.

 

[nintenho]

On PC in the early 90's, I played dozens of games on shareware disks that taught science, english and math and there was also the math blaster game and pretty much any pc at the time could run those games. I think one teacher in my elementary school used homebrew on a saturn to teach the class. I played a lot more educational games on computer (only console game I can think of is geography mario game on SNES) and I think console educational games never took off in schools because the schools could use computers for doing essays/projects and going online as well.

Is this for playstation 1/2? I wonder if they could teach a chemistry class with folding on a ps3? I mean is it possible to have a college level lecture being done using it to demonstrate what specifically happens?

 

[infinity4]

unproductive education i guess