Playing to Learn.. an excuse to play games in class, or actually helpful to your classroom experience?

Congratulations, you're reading my blog. Let me start off by saying you must be really bored if your here, hehe.  Anway our topic of this blog is "Playing to Learn.. an excuse to play games in class, or actually helpful to your classroom experience?"  For anyone who doesn't know playing to learn is a little doodaw we've done in my game design class.  We pretty much play some approved games and consider it an assignment.  Of course since it's school it can't be easy, so after a few days of this "playing to learn" we have to fill out a template on which games we thought were effective and so on.  I'll go ahead and post a link to these game riiiight here ----->http://myglife.org/usa/wv/tvhswiki/index.php/Playing_to_Learn .  Now back to the question is this playing to learn thing actually helpful?  I think it has had a slight effect on my decision of what my game should be like, and it even gave me some time to relax in class.  So there we get the best of both worlds. Well I do believe that pretty much sums up this post, good job on whoever read this, maybe you'll be back to see my other attempts at blogging.