TEDxNextGenerationAsheville - Jonathan Schenker - "School Mods: Gaming The Educational System"

Jonathan Schenker speaks about how video games might actually help us learn.

www.tedxnextgenerationasheville.com

Video by Twin Path Productions.
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Category:

Education

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• TEDx
• NextGeneration
• Asheville
• Jonathan
• Schenker
• gaming
• video
• games
• education

[BurritoBazooka]

at around 6:30... I actually think violence should be rendered way better. Computer games come far from exposing the reality of warfare. And we need to be exposed to the reality of it once in a while. Otherwise we take war for granted, and all those battles that we hear of where x number of troops and y number of enemies killed in action. Honestly, war seems more like a stock market when you look at it from a distance. The reality must be experienced first hand to be understood fully.

[BurritoBazooka]

I wonder if corporations actually take a glance at TED once in a while.

[NICHOLAS5085]

ROFL..."They don't call it a game; for the sake of reputation" >.O''

[CoachWinsor]

I bet he is home schooled...a very impressive young man.

[mateeah]

I bet Steve Jobs would like this

[dailydols]

3:50 "as we gamers call it: an epic win!" .... no applause....too much of an insider!

[ChlorineChugger]

Can social interaction in a true interpersonal medium be adequately replaced by online communities? I don't think there can be a replacement for human interaction, human touch, human chemistry. WoW and Starcraft are great and fun, but heck, a lot of these gamers are so socially awkward. Those games never prepared them for actual life situations in which they would have to interact with others outside of cyberspace.

Other than that, valid points, indeed.

[autogear]

An epic win that will require the older generation to release their grasp of steel and let the younger generation take over the role of spear-heading technology integration into our daily lives. Well said.

[stijnhommes]

@larswijnia If you count how many adults stare at a computer screen in their job, it seems to me that teaching computer skills should be a basic part of education anyway -- aside from all the good points Jonathan made here.

Why games? They're more adaptable to changes in knowledge and they engage children in the one thing they're best at: play. Using games in education would let kids be kids and have them learn at the same time. A win for both sides.

[larswijnia]

you think it's better that every child on a school spend hours and hours a day behind a computer screen and making their eyes pop out than learning from books? why don't make the books moor atractive?? and MOST real game addicts look nog so good. so, why promoting gaming??