BIG NEWS: club penguin goes EDUCATIONAL!

In a UK news article BillyBob said that club penguin will be going EDUCATIONAL. Here is that story:
"If you want a lot of fun while you’re learning, join our Club :) Disney is to bring learning to Club Penguin, the popular children's website, in an ambitious plan to create a ''21st century Sesame Street'' (Alexi Mostrous writes). Three million British Children and more than 20 million worldwide play Club Penguin, a virtual world created in 2005 by a Canadian father and bought by the media conglomerate for $700 million in 2007. Players use virtual penguin alter-egos to ''waddle around and meet new friends''. Children can chat with friends, join ice hockey games or start online snowball fights! In two months' time they will be rewarded for completing games designed to test their verbal and mathematical skills. ''It's going to take learning within a virtual space to a whole new level,'' said Lane Merrifield, Club Penguin's founder, who now oversees development of all Disney's online games. The aim is to mimic Sesame Street, the American children's television show that incorporates educational elements. It is also a canny tactic to allay parents' worries about their children spending too much time online. ''If my child was going to sit down in front of a TV screen, I'd sooner have them watching Sesame Street,'' Mr Merrifield said. Details are being kept under wraps, but he is determined to keep things fun: ''One of the mandates I gave was that there's no chocolate-covered broccoli. If we're going to do learning, [we have to] recognise that learning can just be chocolate.''

I've got a feeling that this is going to mean something about the stamps. Mabe they will be earned when you do math and stuff then you would earn items?

Anyways, I hope that there will not only be addition because that would be way too small for me. I hope that you can choose your grade level.

I understand club penguin's objective: Make learning fun and possibly integrate it into the classroom, but I just don't think that the school systems will buy into virtual worlds.

Club penguin already does so much educational stuff, like paint by letters and their virtual books, I hope it doesn't take over. Club penguin should be a place to chill, and have fun. It should be a virtual playground. I won't mind them making things educational, as long as that is not the entire focus, and they get into the games, and that you will have to do your finances to earn items.

What do you think? Leave a comment on what you think. I think that their will be some major changes.

Waddle on!
~ im a ligor