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What a story to warm up a Monday evening! I came across this information on Kotaku. Little Big Planet is going to form a small part of a larger governmental initiative to promote education and innovation. http://kotaku.com/5410944/obama-and-littlebigplanet-team-up-for-kids How wonderful is this gonna be! Imagine the amount of energy pumped into LBP when even more kids will have access to it. This game is far too amazing not to share!

2009-11-23 17:22:00 Author: noddle111 Posts: 174

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Hm... intriguing proposition. However, I'm not too sure how it is good for school... Those laptops we're getting in schools nowadays are a waste of money, and TBH, this seems like it'll also be a useless attempt to "modernize" education for no real reason :/. ah well <_> At least it seems it's privately funded.

2009-11-23 17:26:00 Author: RockSauron Posts: 10882

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I really don't see this as being very helpful or educational in the libraries, All I can see is little kids blowing each other up with bombs, bomb survival levels, 1M points levels, etc. Add this with endless kiddish laughing and there'll be no peace in the libraries. Now High School and College libraries are a different story. Though It wouldn't surprise me if they made adult themed levels there. Well thankfully most schools don't have online so we'll never see these levels.

2009-11-23 17:42:00 Author: JKthree Posts: 1125

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Nah, I think it'll be fine. I mean, schools do have regulations for what kids do online so they'll be moderated nicely. Plus, making levels like that just means that they'll fall faster into the LBP underground. Plus, they'll get poor ratings, inappropriate pictures, and, worse of all, H4H. So, I think we'll find something interesting out of this, to say the least. EDIT: D'oh! This was my 500th registered post. Grr-dangit! My EPIC BLA-th posts always end up like this...

2009-11-23 17:46:00 Author: Outlaw-Jack Posts: 5757

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Yeah, it should be interesting to see where this ends up going. It is a really good way of getting the PS3 into the minds of teachers and the educational field. If this takes off, I wonder if Sony might create some educational software or something and start a new niche for them.

2009-11-23 18:25:00 Author: lbp Posts: 423

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But I don't want LBP to become too popular! LittleBigPlanet has an amazing community and making LBP available to everyone might destroy that! D:

2009-11-23 19:10:00 Author: Leather-Monkey Posts: 2266

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I'm not too excited for this mostly due to the ratings my levels are injustly receiving and the fact that kids do not take kindly to any form of difficulty or resistance. They quit out and rate the level 1 star, as is my experience with a level that I may have overdone the difficulty on. Plus some of the levels that I do see on the Cool Levels page aren't really that massively awesome or anything, but who knows, I might have to put my foot in my mouth on this.

2009-11-23 19:13:00 Author: ePsil0n Posts: 23

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This is just...Completely random.

2009-11-23 19:27:00 Author: KoRnDawwg Posts: 1424

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Wow, oddly enough I was homeschooling my little brother last week, he had a hard time with fractions so I used the shapes in LBP to explain it to him. I wonder if they'll make lesson based levels for people to play from the library's moon.

2009-11-23 19:29:00 Author: 4wheel Posts: 511

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This is a bad idea for a lot of reasons, including the fact that I think LBP will lose respect after the idea fails miserably.

2009-11-23 19:35:00 Author: ApellesJr Posts: 282

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I see alot of teaching opportunities here. For gradeschool could see it being used to have kids play teacher produced levels. For highschool/college I can see the emphasis being on the create side. LBP offers so many different ways to play... but there is also an untapped opportunity to enhance the learning process. Shameless plug here for my first Blog... see link left column under avatar. "Little Big Planet Central Community: A Social Experiment

2009-11-23 20:07:00 Author: enodrawkcab Posts: 238

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But I don't want LBP to become too popular! LittleBigPlanet has an amazing community and making LBP available to everyone might destroy that! D: Play, Create, SHARE

2009-11-23 20:38:00 Author: gevurah22 Posts: 1476

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Play, Create, SHARE The bad thing is that you're sharing with everyone.

2009-11-23 20:42:00 Author: KoRnDawwg Posts: 1424

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Play, Create, SHARE Imagine you love football (maybe you do), would you rather play it with a small group of people who go out of their way to play it, or play it with a huge group of people who play it because it's at the library? OK that doesn't make sense, but you know what I mean right?

2009-11-23 21:40:00 Author: Leather-Monkey Posts: 2266

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woah this is amazing and weird

2009-11-23 23:14:00 Author: Snrm Posts: 6419

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Hm... intriguing proposition. However, I'm not too sure how it is good for school... Those laptops we're getting in schools nowadays are a waste of money, and TBH, this seems like it'll also be a useless attempt to "modernize" education for no real reason :/. ah well <_> At least it seems it's privately funded. You got those too? Classrooms of the Future is what it's called in Allegheny County and it's a joke. The laptops could be 10 years old and barely work. Plus, they have a battery life of about 30 minutes. In some classes, the battery life is literally five or ten minutes. Before giving us these laptops, they should teach the teachers about computer maintenance.

2009-11-23 23:37:00 Author: qrtda235566 Posts: 3664

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I think this is great! If used correctly, it could be a great learning tool and could also improve the publics perception of video games.

2009-11-23 23:50:00 Author: mrsupercomputer Posts: 1335

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This is great no matter how you see it. This is great because it exposes videogames under a well needed different light. In the adult world (freaking baby-boomers -- won't they die already?) videogames are still perceived as basically a waste of time. Reality is that if we want this medium to evolve, get better and finally get as much respect as music, books and movies, we NEED to push videogames in more different fields and we need to expose the great sides of videogames to mainstream audience like here. .

2009-11-23 23:59:00 Author: RangerZero Posts: 3901

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This. Looks. AWESOME! It would be great to have creativity, and even more when this is put in creative young kids' hands, as I think this could cause a lot of good levels, not just 1M points, just a bunch of bombs, or a h4h. But you know what? As long as kids are having fun and learning from it, I don't mind them making "falling bombs" levels.

2009-11-24 00:05:00 Author: chezhead Posts: 1063

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That picture on the blog you linked is making me ask "Hey, who turned out the lights?" *shudders* And the comment below that blog post is hilarious http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/comment/9/2009/11/1b6810d3c34658d011d2f2c07e2ce3e1/340x.jpg Seems good depending on what the end product will be.

2009-11-24 09:58:00 Author: Snappyguy Posts: 710

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I think it has potential to be great. But also the potential to be terrible. Like most new things. If Media Molecule get involved as much as they can, working hands-on, I'm almost certain it will turn out great though. Young kids are very very creative, I think the results will surprise us! It's not fair comparing it to the 1-laptop per student classrooms, this is a completely different approach, with different tools, and different focus

2009-11-24 12:20:00 Author: noddle111 Posts: 174

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Like mrsupercomputer and RangerZero said, this will be a great opportunity to change how the general public views video games. I think the fact that the administration picked it as one of the tools for this initiative is a kind of validation and recognition. I also think it's great that people who may not have the means to gain regular access to the console and the game will have a chance to experience this extraordinary and wonderful game. Although the Kotaku post doesn't specify this, the NY Times article says that "Sony is expected to donate 1,000 PlayStation 3 game consoles and copies of the game LittleBigPlanet to libraries and community organizations in low-income areas." This may well be a disaster in the end and the success of this program will surely be contingent upon how the nuts and bolts are carried out, but it feels like steps in the right direction, baby steps they may be.

2009-11-24 16:29:00 Author: ScoutsBoo Posts: 63

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...freaking baby-boomers -- won't they die already?... Ouch. This is cool though. I like the recognition it gives to both PS3 and Mm. I also think that, if done correctly, LBP could be a fantastic learning tool in the classroom.

2009-11-24 17:57:00 Author: v0rtex Posts: 1878

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i've got to be honest... it saddens me when i recommend this game to people and they're like, "...what? ...why?" any and all positive exposition is a good thing. yes, it's a mixed blessing, but think of all the incredibly awesome levels we're missing because mr. or mrs. joe shmoe has never heard of this game. the more the merrier i say!

2009-11-25 06:34:00 Author: CitizenGrape Posts: 6

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