Finding Your Science: What video games can teach our schools

Linguist James Gee talks about the deep learning principles found in video games.

Finding Your Science engages the greatest minds in science to share with you their passion, perspective and inspiration for making breakthrough discoveries.

Finding Your Science is a production of National Science Foundation (NSF) and is available for viewing on the NSF Facebook page, at http://www.facebook.com/US.NSF and YouTube channel, at http://www.youtube.com/user/VideosatNSF. Follow NSF on Twitter, at http://twitter.com/NSF and be the first to hear about new episodes.

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[vetovolition]

The camera wasn't close enough to his face for me.

[MinimumOverkill]

@masterquest91 I think that's called Minitroid

[strauchdarren]

Thanks for the video uploaded

[CaptainDesk]

@gunscankillyou All the games they showed are freeware games so they wouldn't have to worry about copyright infringement (although they did show some sort of Metroid clone, but I guess that's fair game).

[vixxito]

Very good and informative video :)

[masterquest91]

@meekayx3 thanks

[masterquest91]

@MinimumOverkill Wow, thanks

[gunscankillyou]

this was recorded after Halo: Reach was released and when he said "Modern games" they showed what i think an America's Army game, like WTF?!

[Sirus20x6]

If I understand this correctly; playing video games makes me a scientist, and I don't

[FloodPower]

@neurocrater i don't think he meant educational learning but was just talking about how in video games people need to learn a lot of things (controls, how to complete certain objectives, ie what weapons to use vs which characters or what spells etcetc you pick up a lot of things. i have learned a lot about wc3, but that knowledge isn't very applicable outside.