Ali Carr-Chellman: Gaming to re-engage boys in learning

http://www.ted.com Ali Carr-Chellman spells out three reasons boys are tuning out of school in droves, and lays out her bold plan to re-engage them: bringing their culture into the classroom, with new rules that let boys be boys, and video games that teach as well as entertain.

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[TselkeNoddles]

@juliecranford Fuck bitches who can't let a group of boys gather somewhere on their own. Is the girl scouts also sexist or what?

[TheJoshea72]

Biologically, Boys are made for running, fighting, hunting, and having sex. From our deepest instinct, we want to defy boundaries, to explore, to compete. I agree with Flare400. Men will always defy control. It's in our blood.

I'm a man, and I approve this message

[crudhousefull]

Yeah...encourange and enable violence and a violent mentality to increase rates of writing. How STUPID! Regulate media and games so that kids don't grow up to be complete numbskulls. Implement programs to encourage morality. Change the culture to promote the family unit. The time for free-running media has to end as it only caters to the basest of human instinct.  Goddamnit I'm tired of being addicted to things

[crudhousefull]

Guys...'juliecranford' is a teenage girl.  Give her a break. I can't believe so many people would start arguing with a kid

[gametolearnonline]

We're based in the UK and are hoping to encourage learning through the use of gamification. this will manifest itself by using game mechanics to help influence users into improving their learning. We'd love to speak to like minded people who are into learning games

[Denoomi]

@TheJoshea72 Actually those are only symptoms of what men actually need to be. Men are there for the protection of women. If you want a girlfriend then you need to be a man who can protect her. Otherwise you will only be a friend to her.

[RedTyphoon1]

@DrNikol2007 Actually Kids get more information/influence from the internet than their parents. A 8/10 year old child has absorbed more information and has access to more information than many of their grandparents did at their age or entire lifetimes.

[RedTyphoon1]

@DrNikol2007 Followed me from the Ferguson/Killer Apps Vid, How Sad.

[DrNikol2007]

Boys do not have their own culture, and they are different. Children do not tend to be nothing; their parents have the influence here. The statistics 100 girls is bs; if teachers tend to expel more boys from school how come this is a boys issue. Western societies have bias towards boys especially the American one. ADHD is invented to bring profits to pharmaceutics corporations.

[RedTyphoon1]

@juliecranford You're going to see the rise of China and India in the 21st Century, both countries have a billion people each, they have large and young populations. That's your competition and the boomers are going to retire. Who's going pay off your $14 Trillion debt and support the boomers - your kids. These young men are going to a burden on society. There's going to more crime more anti-social, more money to be spent on prisons at a time when you'll need health care for the boomers.

[RedTyphoon1]

@juliecranford Doesn't really matter if you do or not. You have gender specific places/things that help girls there should be those that help boys.

[RedTyphoon1]

@juliecranford But a large number do. Homosexuality is not a choice, its scientifically proven that if you are gay then you're born gay/genes etc. You're a dumb bitch - My point is that juliecranford has no right to define male identity. It is violation of male choice/identity. If they WANT to play with guns they have every right to. Anti-Gay activists try to turn gay people straight you're guilty of the same crime. large number of boys do play with guns, not all, but its their choice.