I found this article on the website of the Danish Ministry of Education. I found it very surprising...
A Danish school has introduced the computer game Battlefield as a supplement to mathematics books.
At the “Jakobskolen” school in the City of Frederiksberg, pupils can be seen sitting in front of computer screens playing their way through desert war scenes. And flashing by on the screen are helicopters, tanks and soldiers. All this happens during class – and pupils need not fear the teacher’s wrath for fooling around. It is all part of a plan.
The school has taken the step of integrating computer games in the classroom as a teaching tool and the popular game "Battlefield" is used in mathematics classes to aid exercises in relation to scale and distance.
Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen from the IT University in Copenhagen has done research work on the use of computer games for education-related purposes. He believes the prospects are exciting.
“Computer games help increase the pupils’ motivation and make the taught subjects more concrete and vivid. Especially if the games are suited to the pupils’ individual interests,” he says.
Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen also recommends that the use of computer games should be tailored to the teacher’s specific approach to teaching.
“The games can support the teacher’s chosen emphasis. Perhaps the individual teacher prioritises motivation, collaboration between pupils or visualisation,” he says.
In Hjortbroskolen where we did our practise,I have an experience about using computers in Mathematics.They were being tested on computer with questions in games and problems.teacher can control them on her computer as well.And it is interesting that students did not know that it was an exam.Both of having fun from games and doing exams are possible at the same time in Denmark!
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