Talk:Edutainment
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This article should mention what a crappy little bit of Newspeak this word is. Nasty, ugly little bugger, isn't it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.163.0.43 (talk) 19:24, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
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While this phrase can be considered a neologism, I believe that it has become the most common term for this concept. I recommend that the content at Entertainment-Education be merged into this article. Rossami (talk) 06:54, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Yes. Edutain is just another form of the word Edutainment. They mean the same thing ard aren't different enough to warrant seperate articles.--Anoma lee 06:52, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- Merge. I agree that these two articles should be merged. Kukini 14:07, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
- Yes, of course. HistoryBA 15:59, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
You should also metion the fact that there use of it in computers, particularly Linux Distrobutions and KDE 68.148.138.209 21:06, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Etymology
We need a citation if we are going to credit a specific person with coining this word. -Kukini 16:19, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
- Someone familiar with dime museums might be able to come up with an antebellum citation. --Damian Yerrick (talk | stalk) 03:32, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] First Example of Edutainment
The first example in the introduction just gives a note marker to the link in the notes section. There is no descirption of how this note pertains to Edutainment. Additionally, I fail to see the 'Edutainment' aspect of said note/site. It is a website with gallaries of pictures with next to no explanation of what is in the pictures. I would suggest removing the note from the article. - Everchanging02 20:21, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] terminology
I'll see if I can dig up some citations, but "edutainment" usually refers to a specific cultural era, mainly the educational software of the 1980s and 90s, at which time computers in education were new, and educational software was extremely widespread (nearly every school district had Apple ][ machines with lots of software). Modern-day producers of games that aim to also inform generally don't use the term, and call their work serious games instead; within the game studies literature that's also the main modern term, with "edutainment" used only when analyzing historical games of the 80s/90s era. --Delirium (talk) 08:00, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
