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Virtual Realities
Insight
It’s learning Jim but
not as we know it
The role of games in learning is not a
new concept, explains David Wortley.
Games have been fundamental to
effective learning since the dawn of time
M
any years ago (long before the My greatest claim to fame during these
course colleagues to sign in a circle, but I
desktop computer and in the often tedious weeks was that I responded compounded my crime by using the first
age of punched card input) I to a tabloid article breaking the news that notepaper I could lay my hands on –
joined the Post Office (gives you a clue Harry Corbett’s ‘Sooty’ contract with the
which unfortunately was the college’s
as to how long ago that was) before it BBC was not being renewed. Prompted by
official headed notepaper.
became British Telecom. I was a student a mixture of boredom and mischievousness
apprentice with a Post Office scholarship I wrote an irate letter to ‘Points of View’
The letter was aired on national television
to study electronic and electrical suggesting that my colleagues and I were
and, the next morning, a large red-faced
engineering at Birmingham University as being groomed for senior positions in
part of a thick sandwich course. In the the Post Office and that when one of us
tutor demanded to know the identity of
pre-university year we used to go for became Postmaster General we would
the writer. After an embarrassing pause I
training at Horwood House – out in revoke the BBC’s licence to broadcast.
owned up to the crime and after an even
the country near Little Horwood,
longer and more embarrassing pause,
which I suspect is now in the middle of My pathetic attempt to disguise the following which he graphically described
Milton Keynes. identity of the sender was to get all my the flood of calls from Post Office •••••
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