Using Video Game Designs in School

Using Video Game Designs in School

Category : Blog , Video Games

What Happens When School Design Looks Like [Video] Game Design?

An Excerpt from Jordan Shapiro’s Article on Mind/Shift

The school “…looked very similar to any other school, EXCEPT every student seemed engaged, empowered, and motivated.

It wasn’t what I expected…There weren’t screens all over the place. No fingers pounding game controllers. I didn’t see tons of gadgets or gizmos.

But I did see a curriculum that was designed to approach from a video game perspective. The organizational structure through which material was presented was game-like… Success is a product of their to ability use complex concepts in context, not to memorize and regurgitate…”

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