So, this is my first little post which is just getting my ideas out there, some stuff I say will have to be checked for accuracy later.
Essentially there is the tend which I perceive, from video education (which really started in the 1980) and its transition to internet movie clip education. Much web based learning it based around movie clips, integrated with small games or mini games, sometimes exploratory, where by the child can click and choose clips within a topic area to watch. But often structured, where by a child can watch a short video about for example "milk is manufactured", then which a mini game follows where questions are asked about the information the video contained. Companies such as Espresso education design their mini-games in a way that once completed, a print out can be made detailing the child's answers and providing a kind of certificate of completion. This watch & listen, then answer model in abstraction is similar to a learning/teaching model which was around in the 80s, where by a video was shown on a TV to the entire class, and each student was given a series of questions which to write down answers for, these would be marked by the teacher, and given a star of smiley face for approval.
Essentially the pedagogy of teaching is only just starting to adapt from the old models which are used for teaching with video, the benefit of the interactive computer games learning experience is starting to develop and make use of the new functions. Throughout the 80s and the 90s computers and TV were very separate entities when it came to learning,
Interactive whiteboards & projectors = blackboard & TV
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