Blake Boles
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817 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2019
last heard Dec 2022
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And I would
finish my homework as quickly as I could, and then I would spend hours and hours in front of the TV or in front of the computer screen.
And I I kind of share this funny history in the book of all these games that I fell in love with.
And the theme can that was consistent with all of these games is that as soon as any one of these games became easy
I was no longer interested in playing it.
And I think there's a real lesson to be learned there because it's the exact same situation today with some of the most popular games Minecraft, Fortnite, The Sims.
I'm probably missing a bunch of newer ones.
I'm probably dating myself here.
But when a young person is engaged with a game, the reward for uh, let's say, completing a level in the game is not the end of the game.
It's it's a more challenging level.
That's what happens.
Happens in World of Warcraft.
When you complete a quest, you are rewarded with a more difficult quest.
And what's happening here is young people are learning.
To voluntarily take on big challenges.
Of course, it doesn't look like a challenge from the outside.
If you, as a parent, have never played Fortnite or World of Warcraft or The Sims before, it just seems like a frivolous waste of time.
And so it's very easy to judge it as a non-educational activity.
But if we're looking at education from the perspective of self-directed learning and in
Intrinsic motivation rather than the perspective of checking off all of the boxes in the traditional K through 12 curriculum, then gaming turns into often actually quite a productive activity and one that we should often encourage kids to do while while getting to know the games that they are engaged with, because yes, there are some bad games out there.
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