Why is learning so boooooooring

Learning is boring because it isn't real. Educators focus so much attention on facts. It's like taking what should be a suped-up Ferrari of an experience and focusing on the hubcaps. I mean come on educators get a clue. Kids spend hours every day playing video games because games are engaging. Kids constantly have to apply knowledge (facts) to beat the level (problem solving).

Learning doesn't have to be boring. We can make anything interesting, if we put the resources in the right place. The problem is even educational games are boring. It could just be the same boring people who designed learning designed the games. But the Novak book states that in the beginning educational games and non-ed games had the same budgets. It was a dumb publishing scheme that led edugame companies to cut their budgets. That's too bad. If anyone knows of a company putting top-dollar into a game an the level of a really good MMOG or first-person, let me know. I'd like to see the power of combining a good goal with good resources.