A sight that will trigger nostalgia for many: the first Game Boy!
If we had unpacked our Game Boy earlier in Europe class, the mean teacher would have bagged it faster than we would have protested Shigeru Miyamoto!
could have called.
Were or are digital media taboo when you were at school? A teacher showed on Reddit that there is another way – and he is celebrated by many users for this.
Video games as teaching materials
The fact that video games are pretty much the most creative medium of all is not news to us or to you. Also the teacher with the Reddit username AnonymousCerealBowl
The title of his Reddit-Posts: Okay, class, grab your Game Boys!
Shown in the picture are dozens of Nintendo handhelds, either the Color or Advance models. The classic gray brick is unfortunately missing…
Link to Reddit content
The reason for his impressive handheld collection: He uses Game Boys for his high school literature course.
When some users asked how they would imagine his lessons, he described them as follows:
We alternate between a week of creative writing based on a game we play in class and a week of critically analyzing a game.
That’s really cool!
you might be thinking now. At least that’s how it feels for many Reddit users, who showered him with an impressive 1,600 upvotes on the above statement alone. The Reddit post itself has almost 9,000 upvoteswhich shows that the teacher touched a nerve with more than just his class.
Not just Game Boy games at the start
By the way, the teacher even goes one step further. As he reveals in the course of the Reddit thread, his classroom is also equipped with several Xbox Series S, PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch.
He also provides a small selection of titles that are played and analyzed in his lessons:
- Pokemon (red and blue edition)
- The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim
- Hades
- The Stanley Parable
No wonder that many users on Reddit would have liked such lessons for their own school days. By the way, the whole thing didn’t happen without resistance from some parents. The teacher describes the implementation of his idea as long process
– with a pleasing outcome.
Before you dig out your Game Boy and start paddling, feel free to leave your opinion on the topic in our comments section. Would you have wished for a subject like this in the past or do you even have something similar in school today? If so, then feel free to make us jealous and tell us about it!
