'World of Warcraft' Gets Kids Interested in School

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It's not unusual for video game players to speak of a routine that involves ordering pizza, getting a sugar jolt, and then playing "World of Warcraft" for hours.
But the person talking in this case is Constance Steinkuehler, an educational researcher who organized an afterschool group for boys to play, for educational purposes, the massively multiplayer online role-playing game.
Some of the eighth graders and high school freshmen who signed up for the group couldn't have cared less about writing or reading in school.
Yet those students have gone from barely stringing together two sentences to writing lengthy posts in their group's Web site forum, where they discuss detailed strategies for gearing up their virtual characters and figuring out tough quests.
"It has worked ridiculously well," Steinkuehler said. "It shouldn't be working as well as it is."

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Wow, when I played world of warcraft I slipped on all my study because of how much i played it, I told my mum and she just laughed at me.

[Mikazume]

I knew all that warcraft would pay off....

[SilentKoopa]

that's pretty cool. It's good to see WoW get a positive rep for once. I just hope that their lengthy posts are written in full English rather than net speak.

[SuperHero]

Hmmmm. I'm not sure I buy this. I don't play WoW (I can't affored it) but I know people who say that it didn't make their life any better. As long as the teacher keeps a handel on how much these kids play, I think they should be okay, though.

[Njordgreen]

I really cannot see how WOW could be beneficial to school kids, i play WOW for hours on end, and i know heaps of other people who do to.... i know that my education does not benefit and i really don't think the other peoples i know do too.

however i wish it was true that way i would not then need to stay up to 3am doing my TAFE work because WOW would have done it for me.