• Question: Is Roblox useful for education?

    Asked by 595nepk48 to Ed, Kerrianne, Nina, Oli, yoyehudi on 4 Nov 2017.
    • Photo: Yo Yehudi

      Yo Yehudi answered on 4 Nov 2017:

      I guess it could be, depending on how it’s used. I’d never heard of it before, so I downloaded Roblox Studio and gave it a spin. It looks like it could be a fun way to boost creativity by building worlds, and also a good way to motivate people to learn coding – there seems to be an option to write scripts for the Roblox games you’re building. Learning to code is always much easier when you’re motivated to do something fun! That’s how I started coding – around about 2000 I was on the Internet talking to friends and I decided I wanted to make my own websites. Zoom forward to today and that’s basically what I do for a living, making websites to help biologists view data from experiments.

    • Photo: Kerrianne Harrington

      Kerrianne Harrington answered on 6 Nov 2017:

      I’ve never played it, but I think anything that pushes you to be more creative and investigate how something works is useful! When I was younger, I used to mod games, and this taught me lots of useful things about code and computers. So, I think it could be useful!

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