Thursday, March 17, 2011

Sony Hopes LittleBigPlanet Will Help Kids Do Homework

Media Molecule is releasing a pack of LittleBigPlanet 2 levels that are focused on educating children.

Sony evidently has a new initiative in the works that will hopefully see the PlayStation 3 used as a learning tool in schools. The first step in the initiative is Media Molecule's LittleBigPlanet 2 "Teacher Pack," a set of levels designed for educational purposes.

MCV reports that the levels in the pack will feature "instructions for teachers and demonstrations of National Curriculum-based in-game levels that other teachers have made." They'll use the PlayStation Move motion controller to help give a visual representation of subjects within topics such as mathematics.

PlayStation Move can reportedly track distances, calculate speeds, and perform other useful actions. Sony feels these abilities in a physics-based game like LittleBigPlanet can be a boon within the educational world.

9 comments:

  1. School seems to be getting funner and funner as the years go on.

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  2. so this is for children learning the basics of math or what? I'm not quite sure how I feel about children who do nothing else anymore than playing videogames all the time..

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  3. I don't know what school that would really do this but maybe there are elementary schools or something idk.

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  4. As a further teacher, I promote this!

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  5. I read about this elsewhere, really interesting news. Followed.

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  6. Little BIg Planet is awesome! Such a limitess game. + to the teacher pack there putting out.

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  7. Learning tool is one thing, doing homework is another, and no Video game can help with taht.

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