A gamer, confronting a challenging level, draws on their full intelligence, often rehearsing alternative approaches, working through complex challenges well into the night. Many parents wish that they could get their children to devote this determination to solving their problem sets.
Games push learners forward, forcing them to stretch in order to respond to problems just on the outer limits of their current mastery. Games can adjust to the skills of their players, allowing the same product to meet the needs of a novice and a more advanced student. And games can enable alternative learning styles: for example, arts students might better grasp basic physics and engineering principles in the context of an architectural design program.
Many of us who glaze over when confronted with equations on a blackboard find we can learn science better when it builds upon our intuitive understandings and direct observations, yet many important aspects of the physical world cannot be directly experienced. The operations of electromagnetism, for example, are often counter-intuitive, yet one can imagine a game where users would develop and test more sophisticated mental models by trying to complete tasks in a space buffeted by complex magnetic flows.
Students often complain that they see few real-world applications for what they learn in advanced math and science classes, yet they might draw more fully on such knowledge if it was the key to solving puzzles or overcoming obstacles in a game environment. Imagine an action-adventure game where students learned optical physics by manipulating a lens or building telescopes or cameras to work their way through an ancient Mayan puzzle palace, battle smugglers, rescue an injured archeologist and escape a remote jungle.
Games model not simply principles but processes, particularly the dynamics of complex systems. Imagine a game that moved with the pace of E.
Students will learn the scientific method through their own active observation, measurement, experimentation, tinkering and hypothesis testing, while embedded resources feed them the information they need to make life and death decisions. Imagine a global multiplayer game which required students to negotiate through the complex politics surrounding a major dam construction project in the developing world, making the case not only in terms of its economic benefits or technical efficiency but also with sensitivity to the local environment and culture.
Researchers have found that peer-to-peer teaching reinforces mastery. Educators around the world have recognized the value of competitions where students design and build their own robots and pit them against each other to navigate through obstacle courses. A computer simulation of such a competition can enable more rapid prototyping and further refinement and may expand the total number of students who can share such an experience.
Teachers may stage a particularly difficult level during a lecture, comparing notes on possible solutions. A wacky cuckoo-clock world of gears, pulleys and levers may be a more compelling way than chalk on the blackboard to demonstrate the principles of Newtonian physics. As this example suggests, our educational games are designed to exist in relation to a broader array of classroom activities. Now it has to happen. According to Schelling, for a threat to work, you must have absolutely no doubt that it will happen.
It's why parental threats don't always control their kids' behavior. The kids know that when push comes to shove, the parents will cave and won't go through with their punishment. But in a credible-threat scenario that worked, the Russians and the Americans so totally convinced one another other they would use nuclear weapons that neither side struck first.
In the dark comedy "Dr. Strangelove," human choice was eliminated altogether. The doomsday machine was a computer designed to destroy the world if it was ever deployed -- the ultimate credible threat. Strangelove, played by Peter Sellers. Like I said last time, if you want to be great these are the games that you got to step up to the plate and be about it. That's the same mentality I had last time, same mentality I have this time.
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