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Now Schools Need To Block Advergaming?
from the why-not-teach-them? dept
There are already battles over how much schools need to do to block access to porn and other inappropriate sites from students, and now they are being told to worry about "advergaming" as well. This, of course, is at the same time as corporations are increasingly sneaking into schools in other ways, from McDonald's supplying lunch food to the MPAA teaching lessons about copyright. Instead of worrying how to "block" such things, couldn't it be useful as a lesson? Advertising is clearly a part of our lives, every day. There's no way to avoid it. Why not start teaching kids at a young age how advertising works, and teaching them how to have a more critical mind about what they see and read. Rather than banning it, let it come in, while teaching the students how to deal with it. Won't that do a better job preparing them for adulthood?
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That's the LAST thing they will teach your children. Critical thinking is NOT on the curriculum anymore because its not productive to those in power.
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