I've been in a constant conflict about a video game the boys play called Minecraft. On one hand, it's a video game. On the other hand, the amount of imagination it requires to play the game at all is more than I can come up with in one day. Read the following excerpt from a blog post by a STEM Camp counselor and you'll understand my confliction, especially if you feel the same way about video games that I do. I like how he assimilates Minecraft to Legos. What are your thoughts?
"I’ll probably also be posting a lot about Minecraft, our game of the day (and probably the week). At one point in the seminar, we were watching a film about Notch, the creator, while the game ran in half of the computer screens in the room.
It’s a great game to have running. You have a whole world – many whole worlds, some of which are just gorgeous – where you can explore, mine, break all of the rules, and be creative. I saw chicken bombs, canons, currents – all things that the kids made themselves. It’s like Legos but magic – a glorious exercise for imagination and curiosity, which some say are increasingly lacking in our culture. Oh, and it’s fun – and it gets that much more fun when almost the whole class is playing!"
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