Sacred Symbols+, Episode 216 | The Quest to Gamify Schools
Added 2022-08-16 16:00:09 +0000 UTCPlease welcome Adam Hinton to the show. Adam is a Canadian teacher and consultant, and he's obsessed with the intersection of video games and education. After all, as our children become increasingly bombarded with a litany of technologies, it's important to be able to effectively leverage them to improve their lives. For years and years, young people around the world go to school. Video games are looked at as one of many respites from the grind, a quaint pastime at best and a waste of time at worst. But what if games and school could be successfully fused, with titles mined for their value beyond mere entertainment? We've come a long way from MECC, Carmen Sandiego, and Flash and Java. As argued within, gamifying the classroom may be the single best thing we can do for future generations. As it turns out, it may be time to go where the kids are, and not vice-versa.
Comments
About time for someone to change the tedious teaching methods, in US the schools are more entertaining than here in Brazil, and still both are a arduous job to endure. Congratulations my good man! ππΌππΌππΌππΌ
Marco Maluf
2022-08-26 19:21:01 +0000 UTCThis was a fascinating episode as not being in education or having children I've never thought about any of this. I won't stand for Colins disparagement of Stargate though. ;-)
Mark Whittington
2022-08-26 10:41:29 +0000 UTCmy business partner and I are looking to gamify our startup in the business world and this gave us some great ideas
Joshua LaGrew
2022-08-25 23:39:53 +0000 UTCNice. =)
Colin Moriarty
2022-08-22 14:55:34 +0000 UTCWould be nice. =)
Colin Moriarty
2022-08-22 14:55:19 +0000 UTCTry deleting and reapplying your RSS link.
Colin Moriarty
2022-08-22 14:55:12 +0000 UTCThank you!
Colin Moriarty
2022-08-22 14:55:03 +0000 UTCI used to play jumpstart 3rd grade as well as franklin the turtle in school. It was pretty awesome in 1999
Nathan Favreau
2022-08-20 15:40:52 +0000 UTCMan I feel like this guy is talking about stuff that can truly be revolutionary. Any teachers out there would be really wise to take some of these ideas I feel like. One day, I hope, the ideas heβs talking about will be the norm here in the States.
SnipaMasta
2022-08-19 16:11:25 +0000 UTCIt's not showing on my rss feed
Henrique Coelho
2022-08-19 14:53:37 +0000 UTCThis was absolutely fascinating and thought-provoking.
Forrest Hunter
2022-08-19 12:33:53 +0000 UTCThank you!
Colin Moriarty
2022-08-19 00:20:25 +0000 UTCI'm personally not totally sold that we should abandon rigorous schooling for our kids. But I think there's a place for this.
Colin Moriarty
2022-08-19 00:20:21 +0000 UTCThanks for listening.
Colin Moriarty
2022-08-19 00:20:02 +0000 UTCGreat episode!
Rob Wyburn
2022-08-18 18:05:44 +0000 UTCGreat episode, my wife works in education and it breaks my heart to see the increasing limitations and government mandates placed on teachers every year to no positive effect. Unfortunately I think we are a long way from being able to implement these ideas on a big scale. Schools are far too worried about arbitrary test scores to risk experimenting or god forbid letting kids have fun in school
Retlaw
2022-08-18 11:59:41 +0000 UTCI'm a teacher by education - made my head spin to hear that in other parts of the world you have the room to integrate and experiment with gaming. Looking at how access to knowledge got easier and how society becomes dumber I would say we need to explore alternatives to traditional school teaching. Great episode gents! Thank you for sharing.
tejotl
2022-08-18 05:25:08 +0000 UTC
