School Offering Game Time as Reward

Post by **froggyboy604** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 9:50 am

Selly Oak School in Birmingham is trying a new technique to motivate students. The top 180 out of the 410 pupils receive "platinum award cards" that grant them special access to a game room featuring a Wii and other consoles. Plus, the top 20 students get to wear special uniforms (OK, this part actually has nothing to do with gaming, but we just wanted to mention that we totally don't care at all that they get to wear those stupid uniforms when we don't). And apparently the reward system works, since teachers are now spending half the time they used to on discipline.

So wait, these kids get to play Nintendo Wii in school? All I got for finishing my work quickly was first dibs on Carmen Sandiego and Oregon Trail. Actually, never mind. I didn't have it so bad after all.

Source:: http://kotaku.com/gaming/honor-quarter- ... 334782.php

Sounds like a decent reward for finishing school work. It's better then those gold stars that kids get for doing well on assignments.

Post by **SetoTK** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 12:20 pm

not bad,

though would be funny if all the gmes go replaced by crap ones

glors · Post by **glors** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 6:43 pm

our school is to poor to do that lol. That will motivate me by a LOT

Post by **froggyboy604** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 11:28 pm

I think the "other consoles" are used to discipline some of the kids. The ones that do their homework get to play with the WII while the naughty kids play with the "other consoles".

Yes, if schools use games to reward students, I think more people will finish their homework on time.

I think this might even work at motivating many adults to be more productive at college and work since the Wii seems to appeal to a lot of adults, too.