[game_edu] Brenda Braithwaite's game_edu rant at GDC

[Anthony Hart-Jones]

   You may laugh, but apprenticeships might not be such a bad idea.  I 
learned more about design in a month of work than three years of 
university.  Take a kid with a good understanding of maths / mechanics 
and they'd learn more spending a year working in a games studio than a 
decade in academia.

   As a friend of mine often remarks, your mileage may vary...

On 08/03/11 17:17, Ian Schreiber wrote:

> I think you do a good job of classifying the problem. But is there a 

> solution? Or are you saying that there is no solution, we should just 

> give up and go back to the master/apprentice model?

>

>

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> *From:* Katrin Becker <becker at minkhollow.ca>

> *To:* IGDA Game Education Listserv <game_edu at igda.org>

> *Sent:* Tue, March 8, 2011 11:42:43 AM

> *Subject:* Re: [game_edu] Brenda Braithwaite's game_edu rant at GDC

>

> There's the rub: teaching is simply NOT efficient. Learning takes TIME 

> and PRACTICE.

>

> There are ways to do teach programming fundamentals, but most computer 

> science departments still don't know how. I would not, for the most 

> part, look to computer science departments for answers about how to 

> teach programming. They have always been geared to teaching 

> programming to people who:

> 1. really WANT to learn how to program

> 2. are pre-disposed to being able to learn it easily

>

> The teaching methods have a tendency to select only for those sorts of 

> people who learn like they did. They're not normally useful for 

> teaching people who aren't like the teachers. The same is true for 

> quite a few disciplines.

>

> On 3/8/2011 9:19 AM, Simon Etienne Rozner wrote:

>>

>> I would love to find a way that makes the students lifes easier and 

>> my teaching more efficient by being able to avoid the endless one on 

>> one sessions.

>

> -- 

> *Katrin Becker, PhD* /(sent from Mink Hollow)/

> *President, Mink Hollow Media <http://minkhollowmedia.ca/>*

> *Adjunct Professor*School of Interactive Arts and Technology 

> <http://www.siat.sfu.ca/>, Simon Fraser University 

> <http://www.sfu.ca/> (BC, Canada)

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> /In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a 

> revolutionary act. ~George Orwell /

>

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