Kinect for new scenarios in the classroom learning

Kinect has been a revolution in the year that has made ​​its appearance, and among various uses and hacks, Kinect has been a sensational success, raising interest in many different fields and doing exciting to think about future scenarios.

But maybe not so far had not spoken in depth with an area in which Kinect could collect even more successful: the school, where the technology has already been done by the time his entrance with computers, LIM and in parts of the world's most advanced, with tablet, ebook reader and even smartphones.

Do you remember the boring lectures with teachers and students that explain wearily that lazy writing? Probably the children of future generations will see the kind of lessons as the Stone Age. Provided that initiatives such as that from elementary school teacher Cheryl Arnett take root.

The teacher in question has in fact decided to use Kinect to teach concepts related to geography, science, animals in a school in Colorado, then noting an improvement in learning by children; computer science students Jebediah Pavleas and Jack Chang then, in collaboration with Professor Robin Angotti, are developing an application Kinect custom designed to teach concepts of space, physical and geometric "concrete action", ie using the body.

What do you think? The use of tools such as Kinect in schools might actually help, or would only be seen as a game somehow "harmful"? Although such a scenario in Italian public schools so I would know of utopia ...