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It 's great the education secretary, supports the use of games in the classroom, but he actually reach their full potential?

It seems that the Conservative Party is finally learning to love video games. Education secretary Michael Gove recently delivered a speech on the future of education in the Royal Society. Towards the end he realized the importance of using digital technology in the classroom, and picked to play the role to play in teaching:

Have to "computer games by Marcus Du Sautoy will be developed so that children would with complex mathematical problems previously thought to be committed to advanced. If children for solving equations, in order to get more ammunition to the aliens shoot, it's amazing learn as fast as they can. I'm sure that this area of ??educational games is huge potential for mathematics and science teaching has, and I know that Marcus himself, as he perhaps be able to create games to advanced concepts, such as For example, to introduce the non-Euclidean geometry considered, children at a much earlier stage than normal in the schools.

"The Ministry of Education is using the Li Ka Shing Foundation and the prestigious Stanford Research Institute in a pilot program for computer programs to teach math work, we do not have the program developed -.. We only help them run a pilot Stanford says it is one of the most successful education projects have seen them. "

The argument began, a few surprises in the games industry. Ian Livingstone, the president of Life publisher Square Enix and co-author of Nesta 's Next Gen report on the games industry, tweeted, "Michael Gove in favor of technology and computer games in the classroom as a learning tool for mathematics! WOW. Kind next? "He has lobbied Parliament for better computers in schools, including the addition of Computer Science at the National Curriculum. It seems, might think Conservative Party to move in that direction.

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Resnick envisions a shift from a "knowledge society" to a "creative society" in which the general population are active, imaginative participants. This is exactly what is happening in games at the moment, with the rise of "user-generated" content, and build-it-yourself games like LittleBigPlanet and ModNation Racers. Lots of titles now come with level editors allowing users to create and share their own stuff – and in the era of social networking, social news aggregation and interactive TV passive consumption is over. So what place does it have in the classroom?