Children typically spend hours in front of a computer so a Canadian university has decided to introduce them to Shakespeare with a video game.
While zapping enemy spaceships players have to help recover the stolen text of Romeo and Juliet by memorizing lines from the famous play, learning facts about Shakespeare's life and devising synonyms and homonyms for parts of the text.
"The game is a way to capitalize on the time that kids spend on computers," said Professor Daniel Fischlin who headed the team at the University of Guelph in Ontario that developed the game called "Speare."
"I don't know of another medium that has seven-year-olds spouting Shakespeare," Fischlin added in response to charges the game might trivialize learning.
I do. It's called...the theater, when it's done right, you stupid prick!
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And you know, it's not as if Guelph didn't have a world-class Shakespearean Theatre less than two-hour's drive away... (shakes her head)
Don't paint us all with this brush, Ben.
These games are so silly. As if any kid is gonna want to play learning games (and yes they DO know the difference) when Daddy's x-box with enticing games is within reach.
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