WEEK 8. Article 3 arguments.

In your blog, write a paragraph (or two) about your disagreements with each article
3/ Arguments: The article talks about failure of game makers to make serious educational games. I would suggest that in recent years educational games have developed rapidly (Such as on the Nintendo DS, for eg) and as a result the three year old article’s argument is somewhat irrelevant.
My main argument with the article is the author’s seeming desperation to support DGBL at all costs. The seemingly unashamed one sided article serves as a desperate justification of how games which may not initially seem educational may actually be. Although he acknowledges it is an extreme case, statements like “As an extreme case in point, I could envision using Grand Theft Auto to teach ethics, morality, citizenship, and law enforcement” ridicule the rest of his argument; although he speculates how such cases may serve to educate he fails to provide real proof and i find his desperation to prove the case without any real evidence renders his argument desperate and fairly unreliable.