Game-Based Learning is showing positive results. Listed on the Horizon Report as a technology that has proven to have good results, and one that schools are stating to adopt, game-based learning provides many different challenges for students in learning.
Children love video games, and any child born into the 1990's more than likely has played their fair share. Video games are fun, they can be quite strategic, and they capture a child's attention more than a basic chalkboard covered with arithmetic problems. Strategic games are of interest to me because I believe that you can easily combine classroom lessons with them.
As new teachers to the coming generations, we must realize the changes that are coming to us fast and furiously. I do not believe that any computer should be a substitution for the good old-fashioned paper and pencil, yet once those skills are mastered I believe that we would only hinder our students if we did not teach them about technology.
I would definitely be an early adopter of technology because I believe that in order to teach the current generation and the following ones, that we must get on board with these new ideas and at the very least become comfortable with technology ourselves.
http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2010-Horizon-Report-K12.pdf
http://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/features/dede03012003.html
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