Video-games players make better students?

And here we go with another confirmation. Wired runs an article under the thesis that students who play video games are better students http://www.wired.com/news/games/0,2101,63415,00.html. Other studies already confirmed that children exposed to videogames have a better reaction than those who are not exposed.

Henry Jenkins, host of the Education Arcade Symposium (http://www.educationarcade.org) is quoted as saying that he thinks using games to teach new ways of thinking is a no-brainer, especially given how wired many schools are today. He said there are studies showing that a majority of new college students play video games regularly.

"The computers are already in the classroom," he said. "They're already playing games. Maybe the teachers should join them."

Would this work in Asia? Well, we reported earlier that the police is now catching truant students in video arcades in Malaysia, but this here is confirming our view that something might be wrong with the whole educational system in Asia - that schools are still way too much focussed on top-down teaching, instead of integrating IT into their curriculm much closer, to continue building value into children.