How video games can level up the way you learn | Kris Alexander

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🗓️ 9 March 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Video games naturally tap into the way we learn: they focus our attention and track our progress as we head toward a clear goal. Kris Alexander, a professor of video game design and passionate gamer himself, thinks the same elements should be used in traditional education to cater to different learning styles and engage students across the world, both in-person and online.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:10.8	I'm Elise Hugh, you're listening to Ted Talks daily.
0:13.6	You probably know how hard it is to rest a young person away from their screens in order
0:18.5	to focus on school.
0:20.4	But video game expert Chris Alexander says, why not both?
0:24.2	Why couldn't the augmented reality and virtual worlds we experience in most innovative video
0:29.2	games be embedded in our education?
0:33.0	In his 2023 talk from Ted at Destination Canada, he shows us the possibility for learning
0:38.6	that's already available if schools engage with it after a short break.
0:43.8	Hey everyone, it's Adam Grant.
0:49.1	Welcome to Rethinking, my podcast on the Science of What Makes Us Tick.
0:53.8	I'm an organizational psychologist and I'm taking you inside the minds of fascinating
0:58.2	people to explore how they think and what we should all rethink.
1:03.8	This season we're asking ourselves, are video games really bad for us?
1:08.2	A lot of the time the things that video games do are actually things we would love for
1:14.2	education to do.
1:15.5	When education does those things, we applaud it and we're so happy about it.
1:20.5	But when video games do those things, we say, oh, that's all they want to do.
1:25.2	What a waste of time.
1:26.5	But psychologically what's happening is the same.
1:30.0	Find and follow rethinking without him cram wherever you're listening.
1:37.8	When I was in senior year university, this was around 2004.
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