I don't know the field, but I happened to see something on the Discovery
channel last night about a forthcoming CD-ROM from LucasArts (George
Lucas) that will teach ecology by putting you in a virtual nature
preserve and require you to make observations and figure out how
to keep creatures from going extinct.
If it's done cleverly, this could be fantastic, I think, for teaching
people to view the world as scientists do.
(And, to refer back to my lo-tech thread, it *could* be done as a
text- only game! What I really want to remind people is that the
glitz is usually just painted on, and the schools are being
squashed by a sort of model-year planned-obsolescence that forces
people to buy the new machines or lose out...)
j
Jorn Barger
jorn@mcs.com