I think what struck me most as I was listening to these podcasts was how he said "Gaming is here to stay." I have been doing everything I can to stay away from gaming and keep saying I won't let my own kids have video games. Here at school we don't allow them to go to game sites, even though they always manage to find a way around it, this should tell us something! He states that gaming really demonstrates cognitive ability and that is how students today want to learn. How many times have we said to students, we aren't video games, we aren't always going to be singing and dancing up here, you need to be able to focus on us, how come you can spend hours on video games and be able to concentrate but you can't even pay attention to me for 5 minutes? I know many of us have said these things and even more.
I guess we need to get more into game theory. He was describing a game he was currently working on about going into China and having to interact with people for example for exchanging money, etc. I guess I would love to say that you can only experience something like that if you actualy go to China but realistically how many of our students are going to be able to get there? At least they could experience it through a video game.
The amount of online learning is just going to keep increasing and we need to be more on board with it. He said the more competitive a school wants to be it will depend on how their online learning is. It sounds like China is spending a lot of money on online education, hopefully we are doing the same.
We need to change a lot about our education because of the new jobs that are going to be created because of technology. If we aren't educating our students that way jobs will be given to students from other countries.
How to keep up?
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