Curly's World

If someone didn't already have the first Portal game, it's now free if you get it from here and do so before the 20th. Valve's trying to push Portal and Portal 2 to the classrooms, it seems.

Using interactive tools like the Portal series to draw them in makes physics, math, logic, spatial reasoning, probability, and problem-solving interesting, cool, and fun which gets us one step closer to our goal—engaged, thoughtful kids!

And succeding.

I just wrote about this on my blog, shortly, because I thought it was a great way to look at education.

Now you can Learn with Portals! A recent updated to Portal 2 added a dead simple Puzzle Maker which anyone can use to make their own test chambers and now Valve's pushing teachers to use Portal 2 (for free) in education and are offering lessons plans and other stuff on Teach with Portals.

Is there time for kids to learn anything traditional when they learn chemistry and programming from Spacechem, physics from Portal and I've-no-idea-what from Minecraft?