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Greg Toppo
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The Game Believes in You: How Digital Play Can Make Our Kids Smarter
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2015
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7 editions
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Running with Robots: The American High School's Third Century
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“said Paul Howard-Jones, the British neuroscientist who leads the University of Bristol’s NeuroEducational Research Network, games will become central to schools. “I think in thirty years’ time, we will marvel that we ever tried to deliver a curriculum without gaming.”
― The Game Believes in You: How Digital Play Can Make Our Kids Smarter
― The Game Believes in You: How Digital Play Can Make Our Kids Smarter
“If you look at the vast majority of the games—and there are hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of them—you don’t learn much, but you practice what you’ve already learned.” They reminded him of the first early motion pictures. When people first started making movies, they essentially just filmed stage plays because that’s what they knew how to do. “But then they realized that making a movie meant something very different from doing a play on the stage.”
― The Game Believes in You: How Digital Play Can Make Our Kids Smarter
― The Game Believes in You: How Digital Play Can Make Our Kids Smarter
“If video games had been around in 350 BC, Euclid would have made a video game,”Devlin told me. The thirteen books of Euclid’s Elements would have been the supplemental material, a PDF file that you could read if you wanted to. “People think I’m joking—I absolutely mean that. Euclid would not have written a textbook, he would have designed a video game.” Peek at any of his proofs, Devlin said, and you’ll quickly find that the great Greek mathematician, often called the father of geometry, is asking the reader to do things. “He says, ‘Draw this arc,’ ‘Drop this perpendicular.’ ‘Bisect that line.’ These are actions, and actions are what you get in video games.”
― The Game Believes in You: How Digital Play Can Make Our Kids Smarter
― The Game Believes in You: How Digital Play Can Make Our Kids Smarter
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