1. The bear is getting happier.
2. I paid good money learn how to play spore! I vaguely remember one of my instructors stating that she learned how to operate a VCR in a masters level course.
3. How do we get gaming culture to address the needs of education in a timely manner. I can see that it could be lucrative, but generally gaming culture moves at the front edge of technology and it seems to take public schools eon's to adopt anything new.
4. If the game uses the correct fundamentals about the subject but allows the user to manipulate the environment or product and see what happens, it can be a great tool in the classroom. One aspect that is great is the lack of severe punishments for failures. You still lose, but you can restart and it doesn't cost you more money. Your entire lab is not lost by one mistake. It also can increase the amount of information that can be worked with in a given time frame by removing the labor from a lab activity.
If it is just repetition or filling out the worksheet online, you might as well save the money and order the photocopies.
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