March 15, 2010
6:42 p.m.
On a positive note, my daughters love to work with Scratch.
That is positive, and the perfect segue into my criticism of the article's claims about kids learning science from video games. While I agree that WoW presents "personally meaningful" objectives to the players, causing them to take an interest in the "science" defeating the monsters, I do not think it engages the creative mind at the same level the constructionism element present in Scratch and Etoys do.. - Chris