Re:Why should children program? A review of Seymour Papert's...
by todd8 on Saturday August 27, 2016 @12:42PM
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I remember SimEarth a modern version could be very educational, but not Gaia, isn't it a wacky theory?
Re:Why should children program? A review of Seymour Papert's...
by taliesinb on Saturday August 27, 2016 @12:46PM
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Hehe, yeah. Worse, it's a wrong theory. But still kinda interesting, no harm learning about it.
Agree a modern SimEarth would be awesome.
And even if it is superficial awareness, those kinds of games exercise the fantasy-making faculties that make history itself interesting to learn about, even later as an adult.
Another example. There was this flop of a game in the early 90s, called SimEarth, that I have very fond memories of. It taught me about the Gaia hypothesis and the carbon cycle and stuff. Gameplay was pretty wacky though.