Using computer games to brainwash kids.
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Silver Burdett Ginn Religion Announces New Video Game Series Based on
Gospel Readings
PARSIPPANY, N.J., March 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Silver Burdett Ginn Religion
and Third Day Games, Inc. announced today an agreement to publish a new
series of educational video games based on the Gospel readings. The new
Gospel Champions(TM) series takes children back to biblical times by
recreating Gospel stories in a state-of-the-art game that intertwines
action/adventure gameplay with sequenced elements of Bible stories.
Gospel Champions(TM) unlocks a new Gospel story each month to link
Sunday Mass readings to students' daily lives. The game series has three
different skill settings for grades K-8 and utilizes a family
leaderboard to encourage children to play repetitively with their
parents, siblings and friends. It also provides the capability for
parishes and schools to send personalized messages to kids each time
they play the game.
Raymond Latour, President of Silver Burdett Ginn Religion and a Deacon
in the Diocese of Paterson, said "The Gospel Champions(TM) games will
provide a parish or school with a low-cost, high impact resource for
connecting the home to the Gospel proclaimed at our Sunday Eucharist.
This very much responds to our Bishops' request in their recent National
Directory for Catechesis wherein they ask us to explore each individual
medium of communication so as to make the gospel ever more accessible to
our youth."
"We are excited and honored to partner with Silver Burdett Ginn Religion
to create an innovative educational game for Gospel and Catholic
learning," said Brian Mitchell, President of Third Day Games and a
Catechist teacher. He added, "This partnership is a significant step in
realizing our goal of using the popularity of games to keep our children
connected to the Catholic faith in their daily lives."
For an annual site license fee of $125, Gospel Champions(TM) can be
easily incorporated into the educational program of any parish or
school. Programmed for the 2006-2007 school year, the series includes
in-game messaging for engaging students over the summer and can be
pre-ordered now. For additional information and a demonstration, visit
http://www.gospelchampions.com/
About Silver Burdett Ginn Religion:
Silver Burdett Ginn publishes and distributes faith formation and
character education materials and provides educational services for the
Catholic and Christian communities. SBG Religion's publishing draws upon
Scripture, tradition, the documents of the Church, the best research in
pedagogy, and catechetics.
About Pearson Education
Educating 100 million people worldwide, Pearson Education
(http://www.pearsoned.com/) is the global leader in educational
publishing, providing scientifically research-based print and digital
programs to help students of all ages learn at their own pace, in their
own way. Virtually all students in America learn from a Pearson program
at some point in their educational career. In the U.S., nearly 25,000
schools use Pearson technology to help instruct preK-12 students and
manage how they are doing. Pearson provides schools customizable
services to create, deliver, score and report educational assessments,
both in print and online, that help promote learning. The company is
home to such renowned publishing brands as Pearson Prentice Hall,
Pearson Longman, Pearson Scott Foresman, Pearson Early Learning, Pearson
Learning Group, Pearson Digital Learning, and Pearson Addison Wesley.
Pearson Education is part of Pearson , the international media company.
In addition to Pearson Education, Pearson's primary operations include
the Financial Times Group and the Penguin Group.
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