My favorite takeaways from this article are "Don't get stuck in one genre" and "Don't skimp on production quality".
My own daughter who just turned 11 is a huge fan of Minecraft (+Minecraft – Fan Page), Harry Potter and LEOGS. Yes, she likes some stereotypical 'girly' games and can find dress up fashion Flash games to her heart's content, but she uses that as an augment to her reality of not wanting to actually wear pink glitter platform shoes and 6" feather earrings. More often than not she likes games where she can problem solve or build things – collectively with her friends online.
Group based problem solving skills and communications? Yep, those are skills I can get behind as a parent and a professional woman.
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My 13 year old started out more like you describe your 11 yo, but I made the mistake of letting her try Nazi Zombies on CoD:WaW (her friends had been playing it). Now she's a CoD fanatic and beats me regularly when we play.
Oh my daughter would play WoW if we let her. We have an XBOX that gets used mostly with Kinect games and any of the LEGO games, and her computer is now a Mac (so not many games to pick from unless they are browser based or Steam).
Yeah, I won't let them play MMOs. Club Penguin is as good as they get, and at 13 she's mostly outgrown it. She might play Diablo 3 if I loaded it up for her…
Real social gaming involves twenty sided dice, dragons, cheetos and mountain dew. Someone's an elf, and someone's a halfling.
As an educator, I can get behind any game that challenges our children to use effective higher level thinking skills. We need children to be able to question and strategize. Anything in math or science that can put them ahead from the summer lag is a plus as well.
AH the olden days of D & D. Paper and pencils. Rolling to see if the Wizard IS going to Zap you into the next world or if your Ranger abilities slice him in half. Personally, kids spend entirely to much time on computers. Get them excited about hands on games that make there minds work, not just react. I can honestly say that only one out of my 5 have been bitten by the computer bug. My 45 Y.O. neighbor just lost his house because he was more into War of the Worlds then a roof over his head. Just plain sad. Om tat sat.
IN LOR?
IN FLAM?
Let's make some bread.