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Gaming has become such a big part of everyday life that it’s no longer just something students do after school. In at least one classroom in the Philippines, it’s something they’re expected to study too.
Video games have increasingly found their way into education over the last few years, with teachers finding new ways to engage students, like helping explain history with Assassin’s Creed or improving language skills with Hideo Kojima’s P.T.
Well, now, one middle school curriculum is taking things even further by asking students to break down the mechanics, strategy, and teamwork behind one of the world’s biggest esports games, Valorant.
Philippine students are studying Valorant
An X user recently shared pages from the Philippines Department of Education’s Matatag Curriculum, revealing a Grade 10 lesson focused on the “promotion of digital wellness through Valorant.”
so apparently valorant is part of philippine middle school curriculum now pic.twitter.com/hwvVrNF10x
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Through that, they’re taught to “identify the game objectives and mechanics of Valorant, explain the skills and strategies applied in playing Valorant, demonstrate respect and fairness during online matches and tournaments, practice teamwork, communication, and time management in facilitating an esports event, and manage an esports event applying its concepts and principles.”
That goes well beyond simply recognizing the game, with students taught to understand the different agent roles and even how each contributes to a team’s strategy, while also learning about the organizational side of competitive gaming.
Essentially, the lesson forms part of the Grade 10 curriculum, where “learners demonstrate understanding of e-health and e-sports in promoting personal wellness for active and healthy living,” and this school has chosen Valorant to do that.
In the full curriculum, schools can pick from a wide range of games to study in this way, with it mentioning games like League of Legends, Dota, Hearthstone, StarCraft II, Rocket League, Minecraft, FIFA, PUBG, and Tekken as potential learning devices.
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So, it seems you’ll need to prepare yourself for a bunch of 10th graders to start destroying you in Valorant as part of their ‘homework.’
