MacArthur Foundation Funds School Focused on Designing Video Games

From SegaTech I just heard an NPR clip about the MacArthur Foundation funding a school for 6th - 12th graders designed around video game development. The clip explains that developing video games teaches students how to think about and develop understandings of dynamic systems.

Developing video games is truly an incredible way of teaching students to think. I'll never forget the time that I was a teacher at a Jewish summer camp. (The kids studied two periods a day and did regular summer camp activities the rest of the day.) I was teaching about charity and the idea of different levels of righteousness when it comes to giving charity. (A Spanish rabbi, Rabbi Moses Maimonides developed this theory.) According to Maimonides the best way to give charity is by giving somebody a job and providing them an opportunity to make their own money. The worst way to give charity is to do so grudgingly. I asked students to develop Dungeons and Dragons style games exploring the ideas behind charity. One day I walked into a cabin late in the afternoon when the campers were simply hanging out. The campers were talking about the games that they were making in my class. (They actually had the games out and were looking at them before I walked in.)

I wonder if there are any topics about which students could not develop games?