Mason Hartman
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“Reacting students also indicated that they would be less likely to take future Reacting-type courses. The explanation, the researchers learned, was that Reacting students had worked much harder than their peers in regular seminars.”
― Minds on Fire: How Role-Immersion Games Transform College
― Minds on Fire: How Role-Immersion Games Transform College
“Senior scholars, insulated by tenure, pawn undergraduate instruction onto overburdened adjuncts and unprepared grad students. Beleaguered instructors ward off student resentment by offering fluff courses, assigning little work, and bestowing As with glad-handed largesse. This 'non-aggression' pact enables students to enjoy the social aspects of college without the inconvenience of doing much academic work, and it allows professors to focus on research (or carpentry or yoga) unencumbered by pestering students.”
― Minds on Fire: How Role-Immersion Games Transform College
― Minds on Fire: How Role-Immersion Games Transform College
“If classes were 'sorta boring,' was it because of the student or the teacher?”
― Minds on Fire: How Role-Immersion Games Transform College
― Minds on Fire: How Role-Immersion Games Transform College
“Students relished times when Reacting games careened into absurdity, such as when a young woman, as a Ming scholar, delivered a persuasive speech on why women should not speak in public, or when a disciple of Gandhi denounced modernity while referring to notes on his iPad.”
― Minds on Fire: How Role-Immersion Games Transform College
― Minds on Fire: How Role-Immersion Games Transform College
“From time to time,' Turner explained, most people seek to discard their customary clothing and status markers and 'don the liberating masks of a liminal masquerade.”
― Minds on Fire: How Role-Immersion Games Transform College
― Minds on Fire: How Role-Immersion Games Transform College
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