Video Games and Learning

Rise of Nations is a great example that teaching you while you still have tons of fun. I'm not a history person, but I've learned so much about so many countries' development over the centuries, and historical military campaigns. And it's all completely passive learning. As you try to remember what your opponents' strengths are you subtly remember facts about that tribe / nation. Great stuff.
On another note, great vid, and I wish more than 80k people would watch your "lectures."

great vid and so true. Made me realise how much i've learned from games, hell I even started to study on my free time thanks to games! Those sneaky developers :)

dude i recently graduated in game design here in Brazil, DAMN if I had seen this video in my first year at college!My teachers had to watch this, nothing could be so much true man. Great video.

Learning involves functional use of a) knowledge and b) one's innate faculties, not just the acquisition of raw knowledge that is authoritatively deemed to be worthwhile.

I like what you're saying here, but a word about the kind of mental (and - why not - emotional) processes a player goes through during play. Is it staring bloodshot at a screen screaming "die, die!!!" while moving a cursor over some arbitrary foe, or is it an engaging thought-provoking freeform exercise of creativity?

I remember how Tomb Raider got me interested in archeology and ancient civilizations.I don't think I'd have read that fat book on the Great Wall of China without the game perking my interest.

The point hurts. A lot. Especially the ballsack. Ow.

It is so true that yuo can learn things from games. I'm always telling my mum about something I've leared from a game. It is not usually something very important, it is more like a word that I've heard and then looked it up in the dictionary. But games like Need For Speed are what really got me into cars and how they work.

Anyway good job!

This video needs at least 1 million views =)

This kind of reminds me of how the Game Overthinker said that all games are educations, in moderation that is, just like anything else in life.