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Why gaming is the future of learning

Posted in Coaching, Entrepreneurship, Games, Learning on August 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Jane McGonigal is a very talented game designer. I met her for lunch in Berkeley when Nipun brought us together with Mike Smolen (dotSUB). She was voted MIT’s top-35 innovators changing the world, for her work in building distributed games. Here is an interesting presentation from her about how gaming would help learning in the [...]

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Mining meaning with the mobs – Meaningful games

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Games, Uncategorized on August 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Could games be used to influence behavior? Could guilds, mobs and monsters teach us a thing or two about leadership, decision making, team building and effective communication? The answer is absolutely yes.
I met an interesting Stanford professor Byron Reeves who is focusing all his energies now to create this link between the fun games and [...]

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Meaningful Games

Posted in Games, Learning on March 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Chris Swain talks about how games would impact our lives in the future. I agree with him. I believe we are just scratching the surface of what games could do with the process of learning and many other social change issues.
He asks the right questions – Can we create games that help people learn even [...]

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