Runescape....Educational or not?

[RpgGamer]

runescape is educational - and definiatly improves problem solving skills.

 

Ive witnessed a few members quests and treasure trail stuff. some of the puzzles are very challenging, therefore educational. however on the f2p side of things, there are no puzzles. instead there is something thta u can actually use in real life acounting skills. All the f2p merchants have to no what their doing, whether they need to increase funds or decrease them. running an f2p buisness is not easy, i know cuz i have 3. so i think that if you choose to make it so, runescape can be educational to a certain extent

[darkforaster]

some of the puzzles are very challenging, therefore educational.

 

 

 

Not neccessarily. if somethings hard it just means it's harder to do. It does not mean it will teach you skills. There is a difference. It just so happens that harder things will USUALLY make you learn skills.

[syndrome445]

Since when is uncooking fish on an evil cat who talks island educational?

 

They try to squeeze education examines here and there, but it is only to attract parents into letting their child play the game. Anyone who says differently is kidding themselves. Do not let them talk you into thinking that the game is educational. IT'S NOT! :shame:

[unkn0wnwarrior]

Since when is uncooking fish on an evil cat who talks island educational?

 

They try to squeeze education examines here and there, but it is only to attract parents into letting their child play the game. Anyone who says differently is kidding themselves. Do not let them talk you into thinking that the game is educational. IT'S NOT! :shame:

Its not educational in the traditional school sense. But it does teach some things. It also demands some logical reasoning. It does expand your mind. And that is what education is truly about, is it not?

[Rebdragon]

Since when is uncooking fish on an evil cat who talks island educational?

 

They try to squeeze education examines here and there, but it is only to attract parents into letting their child play the game. Anyone who says differently is kidding themselves. Do not let them talk you into thinking that the game is educational. IT'S NOT! :shame:

Its not educational in the traditional school sense. But it does teach some things. It also demands some logical reasoning. It does expand your mind. And that is what education is truly about, is it not?

 

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[Rock Hard]

Since when is uncooking fish on an evil cat who talks island educational?

 

They try to squeeze education examines here and there, but it is only to attract parents into letting their child play the game. Anyone who says differently is kidding themselves. Do not let them talk you into thinking that the game is educational. IT'S NOT! :shame:

Its not educational in the traditional school sense. But it does teach some things. It also demands some logical reasoning. It does expand your mind. And that is what education is truly about, is it not?

 

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Well, it teaches patience - And the merit of 'work'.

 

 

 

That's good. No?

[Striker6]

Yes Gidion telling your child to go play runescape is the best way for them to learn patience. Not by teaching them to ride a bike or tie their shoe laces. You're right the merit of work should be learnt on an online game not by helping your parents in the garden or getting all your homework done and that bit extra to please your teacher. Runescape is the way to go!!!!!!!!

 

 

 

/sarcasm

[Toxicologist]

The pitiful amount Runescape could ever teach you could all learn with much more depth in real life. Besides, when you play Runescape, do you go, "Oh goody, I'm going to learn about life!" You never learn anything unless you set your mind to learning. The only things you ever learn without intending to learn is if it's thrown repeatedly in your face until your mind registers it, which in that case it is probably worthless.

 

 

 

To they guy who said about learning English in Runescape: You could if you set your mind to it, but it isn't the game that's making you learn, it is conversing with people and reading, which you could do far more effectively by socialising or reading books. The only English I've ever learned in Runescape (and I'm not a primary English speaker either) are words such as LOL, NOOB, BRB, GTG, SAFER, FFS, WTF, etc. Not very educational.

[Rock Hard]

Yes Gidion telling your child to go play runescape is the best way for them to learn patience. Not by teaching them to ride a bike or tie their shoe laces. You're right the merit of work should be learnt on an online game not by helping your parents in the garden or getting all your homework done and that bit extra to please your teacher. Runescape is the way to go!!!!!!!!

 

 

 

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I was going to just ignore this post - as it was from Striker. But I guess I should point out that I never said it was the best place to learn patience. However, it's still helped me focus on goal / target setting.

 

 

 

Don't be stupid enough to imply that I claimed parents should let RS raise their kid's for them - I said no such thing, and do not think they should. I simply pointed out that their are some positive features of RS, development-wise.

 

 

 

It's also taught me how to type, a hellova lot faster than those 'Mavis Teaches Typing' programs tried to.

 

 

 

RuneScape isn't educational, but it's not entirely detrimental either.

 

 

 

Or would you disagree, Striker?

 

 

 

- Gid.

 

 

 

Oh, and by the way - I loved the 'Sarcasm' gag. You're a blast, mate.

[Spy13]

Well, on its own it's not very occasional at all. But once you've finished with it, stepped back on it, and think for hour or two, maybe more, you learn things from it that you never would have learned in the process of doing it, and perhaps not from anywhere else either. It's a very controversial subject. :wall:

[Striker6]

I would disagree, the way Runescape is constructed makes it very addicting, you could spend hours on certain skills neglecting the real world. Young people are very susceptible to these kinds of 'patience' as you say. I say there is a difference between teaching patience and being exposed to addiction. Don't say people aren't addicted to Runescape because alot of people become addicted, look at us, members of a fansite to a childrens game.

[Duke_Freedom]

Sure RuneScape can teach you a few things, although I'd say it depends a lot on yourself and how you play the game as well.

 

Calling the game 'educational' may go a bit far though...

[Ltje]

Saying that RuneScape is good for teaching you English is like saying that GTA is good for teaching you how to be a businessman.

 

 

 

~q

 

 

 

Sorry for the late reply, but that is simply not true.

 

 

 

I for one know for sure that my marks in English have increased since I play RS, allthough I do think that Tip.it helps more really. It is not that you learn much new words or grammar or something, it is that you trick your mind into thinking about English. If you do that day after day after day, then gives you that a serious pr̮̩̉̉ about all those other classmates of mine who only think about English when they're in class.

[kuhasa]

Educational, in terms of content, no.

 

But if your main language is not english, you learn lots of words. I'm french, and I learned a lot of words in my years of Rs.

 

If your main language is english, then u wont learn anything, or hardly.

 

 

 

 

 

Im brazilian and learned english in games :

 

And RS is educational because you can choose your profession from here

 

 

 

example:Cooking=Cooker; Herblorer=Cientist; Fishing=Fisherman

 

you get the pic

[hkscaper]

When I open my email inbox this morning, I found a bunch of "you're a winner!" and "get $1000 quick" type of spam. Knowing that these are dangerous to open, I deleted them at once. Then I realize how similar this type of social engineering is to the scamming tricks in RS.

 

 

 

Since I care a lot for my RS character, I've learnt how to make my computer secure, and not to trust offers that are too good to be true.

[TheWilch]

i strongly belive those (few) great merchanters, that can take 1m and post up in falador for 1-5 hours and come back with a santa had or a drag chain are going to definatly benifit from this training in their real life work.

 

 

 

merchanting is the only thing i can really connect real life/work ( get money mindset) and runescape, thats runescape benifiting rl.

[Rebdragon]

i strongly belive those (few) great merchanters, that can take 1m and post up in falador for 1-5 hours and come back with a santa had or a drag chain are going to definatly benifit from this training in their real life work.

 

 

 

merchanting is the only thing i can really connect real life/work ( get money mindset) and runescape, thats runescape benifiting rl.

 

Problem is, we don't exactly live in the Middle East, so haggling is rare. That, and the Runescape economy bears absolutely no resemblance to that of the world economy.

[TheWilch]

i strongly belive those (few) great merchanters, that can take 1m and post up in falador for 1-5 hours and come back with a santa had or a drag chain are going to definatly benifit from this training in their real life work.

 

 

 

merchanting is the only thing i can really connect real life/work ( get money mindset) and runescape, thats runescape benifiting rl.

 

Problem is, we don't exactly live in the Middle East, so haggling is rare. That, and the Runescape economy bears absolutely no resemblance to that of the world economy.

 

 

 

good buisness men 8-)

[darkforaster]

Educational, in terms of content, no.

 

But if your main language is not english, you learn lots of words. I'm french, and I learned a lot of words in my years of Rs.

 

If your main language is english, then u wont learn anything, or hardly.

 

 

 

 

 

Im brazilian and learned english in games :

 

And RS is educational because you can choose your profession from here

 

 

 

example:Cooking=Cooker; Herblorer=Cientist; Fishing=Fisherman

 

you get the pic

 

 

 

it doesn't teach you your proffession. it's a game. the characters are programmed to be able to do things at a certain level. do we have level is rl? no. rs has no influence over your proffession. (unless you want to work for jagex... :uhh: )

[homegirl911911999]

i agree marketing method but i have learned things on rs.

[kuhasa]

Educational, in terms of content, no.

 

But if your main language is not english, you learn lots of words. I'm french, and I learned a lot of words in my years of Rs.

 

If your main language is english, then u wont learn anything, or hardly.

 

 

 

 

 

Im brazilian and learned english in games :

 

And RS is educational because you can choose your profession from here

 

 

 

example:Cooking=Cooker; Herblorer=Cientist; Fishing=Fisherman

 

you get the pic

 

 

 

it doesn't teach you your proffession. it's a game. the characters are programmed to be able to do things at a certain level. do we have level is rl? no. rs has no influence over your proffession. (unless you want to work for jagex... :uhh: )

 

 

 

 

 

you didn't get it do you?

 

 

 

What i mean is, a person who train cooking at here maybe gets the idea of being a cooker in real-life... is THAT what i wanted to mean not that in real life we have lvls...

[Toxicologist]

You're right, I'm sure he did not get it. Neither did I. By the way, I found a dead grammar on the street. Is it yours?

[kuhasa]

LOL im brasilian so if i write wrong here is my explanation :)

[darkforaster]

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you didn't get it do you?

 

 

 

What i mean is, a person who train cooking at here maybe gets the idea of being a cooker in real-life... is THAT what i wanted to mean not that in real life we have lvls...

 

 

 

No, i understood what you meant. it's just i disagreed with you. in rl you have amounts of ingrediants (lets use cooking for an example) in rs you don't. one bucket of water + 1 pot of flour probably doesn't get the right mixture in.

 

 

 

and how is burning your fingers on a fire a good thing? somehow the rs community has an immunity to fire (except fire spells). we have to reach into the fire to get the food.

 

 

 

sorry. rs does nothingto help rl skills. (except languages...)

[Toxicologist]

Even then, all you learn in the linguistic department are swear words, 1337speech and slang. Anything adaptable for use in real life would be woefully misspelled. And let me ask you something: is it possible to learn pronunciation in Runescape? That is one of the most important parts of language. To be able to speak it. I don't think so.