Edutain Me
“Edutainment” is a disgusting word invented by some marketing genius to sell products. It was later applied to videogames. To parents, it meant you could safely buy the game so labeled for your kid with the knowledge it would have some educational value. To kids, it meant this “game” was going to make you do math problems before allowing you to play a very poor facsimile of a popular game for a few seconds. These are the games that, in the context of the school day, were great fun and are fondly remembered. Outside that context, they are the worst examples of how games can be used to teach us.
