Sunday, December 7, 2008

last outpost as a reading intervention

I posted a review of last outpost, but apparently I left off a key component. Here's hoping I get this shoe-horned in and get the full credit.

I wouldn't use this to offset someone's lack of reading skills, or attempt to improve them. The frustration level with the game, from a personal perspective, would be even much more evident with a student behind academically. The fairly frequent grammatical errors in the displayed text of the game and the lack of a consistent syntax checking system-or the willingness of the mods to correct them, brings me another bone of contention. Giving a poor reader a poorly constructed text to read will not help them. If someone who knew what they were doing and were reading on-level I would consider this as an extra credit assignment, wherein they would generate a reaction paper much like mine, but I wouldn't go anywhere near this program with a student behind the curve.

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