Building Geography Literacy Through Educational Games
Much has been written about the poor knowledge of geography of Americans. For example, in a survey, 63% of respondents could not identify Iraq on a map. Fewer than half could identify New York and Ohio. If we really believe in the flattening of the world, then it is more important than over to ensure we (and our kids) are global citizens.
Today, at RamoGames.com we’re releasing a bunch of games to help improve our knowledge about geography. They include games covering, Africa, Asia, India (we had to do this one given the origins of our name!), Europe, North America, and South America. They are suitable for all ages, and we even predict that kids will do better than adults in some of them.
Let us know your high score in the comments and we look forward to hearing your feedback!
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Tags: educational games, edutainment, europe, games for kids, geography, globe, india, kids educational games, map, north america, south america
August 14th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
I’m familiar with this, after helping my husband study for his citizenship exam. How many Americans actually know what the original 13 colonies (not states) were?
I was reading a post this morning by Dr. Scott McLeod on “Video games and learning: Individualization, simulation, and complexity” (http://www.dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2008/08/video-games-and.html). What’s fascinating to me is how the complexities of the games are reinforcing the multi-tasking culture today’s kids are growing up in. They can take more on in less time. I need to do some homework to understand if this has a direct correlation to increased learning capacities, but there is no doubt that today’s online games are learning tools - at least indirectly.
Good to see the Ramos Games folks are looking at the educational value of games for kids!