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Teaching Empathy Through Digital Game Play

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From blogs.kqed.org - November 7, 2013 1:14 AM

“ Video games can offer a playful approach to learning a new concept, providing a jumping off point for diving deeply into a topic. Games can’t do all the teaching, but they are an engaging way to get kids thinking -- even about ethics.”


Via Gust MEES, Reucover
Martin (Marty) Smith's insight:

I love the idea of teaching through video games. One of my favorite books is Steven Johnson's Everything Bad Is Good For You.


Johnson's book is about how the video revolution has helped make us smarter and ready us for ths crazy digital time we live in. Johnson proposes a clear way to know the differnedce beteen life NOW and THEN. Try watching an old show like My Three Sons or I Dream of Jeannie. Can't be done. Too slow and goofy. 

This post makes me wonder how ecommerce websies could "teach empathy" via games too.  

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4 Reasons Adults Should Play Video Games

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From www.emaxhealth.com - March 10, 2013 9:38 AM

"Playing video games is not just for fun, according to a number of studies of the impact of gaming on adults. In fact, pushing those buttons may be a pathway to physical and emotional health. Here’s what the research shows."


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Everything Bad Is Good For You
Steven Johnson's book Everything Bad Is Good For You supplements this post nicely. Our contemporary world is complex and crowded. Video games teach an essential set of skills via play and fun. 

Adults Learn Best When Engaged
I can't sit in class anymore. Its too passive. My consumption is active, I want to take when I read, watch or find and share it across my nets. I learn best the way medical students are taught:

* Watch One.
* Do One.

* Teach one.


Video games create the watch, do, teach dynamic AND the combine it with our most open and creative "brain", the "play brain". I write this and admit I am NOT a video gamer, something I hope to fix soon (at 55). Why? Because its fun. 


* Steven discusses Everything Bad on BootTV: http://www.booktv.org/Program/5731/quotEverything+Bad+is+Good+for+You+How+Todays+Popular+Culture+is+Making+Us+Smarterquot.aspx 

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cellulari-dual-sim's comment, March 12, 2013 10:24 PM
lovin play Nintendo 3DS games, Playstation Break 3 and Xbox 360 video games
cellulari-dual-sim's curator insight, March 12, 2013 10:26 PM

fond of play Nintendo 3DS, Xbox 360, Playstation Break 3 Video Games
Yann Leroux's comment, March 31, 2013 1:52 PM
Steven Johnson's book is just awesome!
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Duke Study Shows Video Games Are GOOD - Forbes

Duke Study Shows Video Games Are GOOD - Forbes | Must Play | Scoop.it
From www.forbes.com - June 12, 2013 10:41 AM
Duke Study Associates Action Video Games With Improved 'Visual Sensitivity' In ...
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Remember all those times you told your [insert human relationship] that focusing on your actions in multiplayer was actually helping your eyes?
Martin (Marty) Smith's insight:

More Evidence Steven Johnson was onto something when he wrote All Tings BAD are GOOD For You. I love Johnson's book because he discusses the pervasive influence of video games and video game creation thinking on our lives and marketing. 

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Francis X Carmody's curator insight, June 15, 2013 8:20 AM

Wow!  Lots of Christian parents are likely to freak over this one!  :-)  No wonder we can't get more support for game *designers* as well...
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