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Most of us have tried to sneak a quick game of Minesweeper in during our computer classes at school, but for students at Garnes High School in Norway, playing games won't be something they'll have to hide. Garnes Vidaregåande Skole, a public high school in the city of Bergen, Norway, is to start teaching e-sports to its students (story is in Norwegian) starting in August. The elective class puts e-sports on the same footing as traditional sports such as soccer and handball at the school. 30 or so students enrolled in the program will study five hours a week during the three-year program.
Folk High Schools—boarding schools that offer one year of non-examined training and education—have already offered some e-sports training, but this will be the first time that e-sports find a place in a regular high school.
Students on the program will not simply spend five hours a week playing games at school. While gaming skills are important, the classes will include 90 minutes of physical training optimized for the games in question, with work on reflexes, strength, and endurance. Each class will be split; 15 students will play while the other 15 perform physical exercise. In an interview with Dotablast, Petter Grahl Johnstad, head of the school's science department, says that the students will have their performance graded, with game knowledge and skills, communication, co-operation, and tactical ability all being assessed.
Ender shall be Norwegian...
(Score: 2) by ticho on Wednesday January 13 2016, @10:35PM
The enemy gate is down. (someone was bound to make this post, I'm just speeding things along)
The paranoid in me wonders if this is really meant to profile future candidates for some military thinktank for their country.
(Score: 4, Funny) by Bot on Thursday January 14 2016, @01:32AM
Maybe it's a masterpiece in reverse psychology: picture the kid entering rebel age at 13
- Josh?
- Mom?
- you did your homework? the professor said you gotta finish that multiplayer ctf map for next week and your clan is doing poorly
- yes mom (scuttles down the stairs and goes to play dodgeball with the bullies)
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 14 2016, @09:32AM
Not that far out.
I bet for many of us (and definitely for me), P.E. was what made me hate exercising, especially team stuff.
The only forms of exercise I don't hate is bicycling and rollerblading, two things we never did in P.E.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Saturday January 16 2016, @02:44PM
I live 1hr from Venice, here are the carefully collected stats:
first school out of town trip: Venice;
second trip: Venice;
first day of skipping school with car availability: everywhere from the snowy seaside in december to crossing the then existing iron curtain for Yugoslavia, to Austrian sweet shops and tech oriented malls, to running 'round the roundabouts in second gear, everything. As long as it's not Venice.
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