He has directed ILS since its founding in 1989 with support from Andersen Consulting. Today, his hundred-member staff includes research and teaching faculty, programmers, content specialists and more than 60 graduate students, interns and visiting staff. A strong critic of today's educational system, he isn't without solutions. His highly successful role as a teacher, consultant and lecturer is a testament to the workability of his message as well as the extremely powerful and effective multimedia training tools coming out of ILS labs. This is an unfortunate thing about the structure of education.
Kids wind up being told stuff.
Instead, they need to be able to accomplish something, to have a goal in mind, to make valid connections and transference to everyday life. Let kids experience things learned by doing things. If the simulation program is done properly it is linked to ideas and encourages storytelling.