Michael Gove: Video Games - Lessons Of The Future? From bringing
digital textbooks to the classroom to requiring keyboard skills
in lieu of cursive writing, schools are taking teaching in the
digital era to a new level. Now, U.K. Education Secretary
Michael Gove says video games have a place in the classroom,
too. In an address to the Royal Society in London last week,
Gove cites games developed by Marcus Du Sautoy, a math professor
at Oxford University, that allow students to actively engage in
math and science, according to Edge. "When children need to
solve equations in order to get more ammo to shoot the aliens,
it is amazing how quickly they can lear," [Gove said.] "I am
sure that this field of educational games has huge potential for
maths and science teaching and I know that Marcus himself has
been thinking about how he might be able to create games to
introduce advanced concepts, such as non-Euclidean geometry, to
children at a much earlier stage than normal in schools." The
U.K. Department of Educati