Computers In Education

Topic Description

What I always found interesting was educational computer games. As a child, I have always loved computer games when it dealt with learning. Children don’t realize they’re learning when they’re playing a game like Oregon Trail. I would like to learn more about what other educational computer games are offered and how they affect a child’s education in the long run. I want to know if computer games really help children learn.

Available Tutorials

It was pretty hard finding tutorials on computer games, most of the ones on the internet you either have to pay for or they're just regular online games. The first link I found is especially excellent, it had everything educational, from Science to English and History.

This website has a ton of tutorials on it:

http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/interactive.htm

This link motivates children to read K-8:

http://bookadventure.org/ki/index.asp

The games on this site you have to download or pay for, but most are family activities to help children learn:

http://www.kidwaresoftware.com/


Evaluation

I clicked on Language and Arts section of the first link I listed. I took a grammar tutorial on this website:
http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/CET/flashactivities/addition_matching_game.html

I didn't understand it at first, but then I got the hang of finishing the sentences. I couldn't see the other sentences below until after I clicked submit, scrolled down and saw that there were more sentences to finish. If I was a child, I would be confused...even more so than I was now haha...the set up isn't very good.