{"id":287,"date":"2005-08-10T17:57:08","date_gmt":"2005-08-10T17:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=287"},"modified":"2005-08-10T17:57:08","modified_gmt":"2005-08-10T17:57:08","slug":"computer_games_in_british_scho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2005\/08\/10\/computer_games_in_british_scho\/","title":{"rendered":"computer games in british schools, and, death by gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"starcraft.png\" img  border=\"1;\" src=\"\/blog\/archives\/starcraft.png\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" align=\"right\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/spacer.gif\" border=\"0\" width=\"15\" height=\"150\" align=\"right\"> Four secondary schools in Britain (ages 11-16) are to incorporate computer games into daily classroom activities as part of a one-year trial run. Researchers are looking to begin drafting a &#8220;road map&#8221; for game integration in schools across Europe. See BBC: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/technology\/4134530.stm\">&#8220;Games to be tested in classrooms.&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\nAnother BBC item: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/technology\/4137782.stm\">&#8220;S Korean dies after games session.&#8221;<\/a> Seems a 28-year-old man became so immersed in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Starcraft\">Starcraft<\/a> that he neglected to eat or sleep. After 50 hours, his heart stopped.<br \/>\n(image is a screenshot from Starcraft)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four secondary schools in Britain (ages 11-16) are to incorporate computer games into daily classroom activities as part of a one-year trial run. Researchers are looking to begin drafting a &#8220;road map&#8221; for game integration in schools across Europe. See BBC: &#8220;Games to be tested in classrooms.&#8221; Another BBC item: &#8220;S Korean dies after games [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[725],"tags":[2452],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","tag-game-gaming-games-videogame-computergame-electronicarts-education-classroom-britain-school-korea-starcraft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}