PYCY Day 4
PYC was low on staff today so the kids got to play computer games for 45 minutes. I was watching and giving feed back to two boys who were playing Super Smash Brothers. It made me laugh because it was the OLD version of the game when Nintendo came out with one of its first systems. Anyway, they got bored of that game and started playing Carbon Auto Theft. I didn’t see what the game was called when the started playing it. It looked like an interesting game. I thought the object of the game was just to try to get out of a parking lot without hitting other cars. Then their teacher came around and saw that they were playing the game and told them to stop because it was not an appropriate game to be playing. The kids did not know that what the game’s object really was. I felt bad because I did not pay attention to the name of the game and the guy who was driving the cars. I hope their teacher did not think I just did not say anything to them about playing the game because if I’d known what it was, I would have. I thought all the websites that were given to the kids that were games were “kid friendly.� I guess not. I’ll have to be more careful if they go to the computer lab to play again.
The rest of the time I played math games with a group of kids. The game was teaching them about fractions. I tried explaining to them why 1/2 is larger than 1/12. I don’t think they understood though.