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Schools as transmission failures
Why schools fail to teach everything they intend to:
- The patters are too easy, so students get bored (and this is especially common for gifted students).
- The patters to be learned are too hard, so students give up.
- The patterns are not perceived as meaningful.
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Games vs Schools
If a good game teaches you everything it has to teach you before the player quits, then a good school should be one that teaches you everything it intends before the students leave.
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Developing mastery
Fun is the experience of developing mastery. When we acquire new skills and recognize valuable patterns, our brains reward us with a shot of pleasurable sensations.
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Learning, good and bad
Schools often do a bad job teaching us things that should be good for us, while games do a good job at teaching us things that are often useless.
But school and games should learn from each other: teachers should study games to learn why they’re so compelling, and gam...
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Boredom and learning
Boredom is what we feel when our brain decides that there's nothing worth learning. It's the brain searching for new information.
And even games become boring at some point because they eventually run out of things to teach you. That's when you stop playing.
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Games and learning
Games are optimal learning environments:
- Feedback loops are short, fast and adapted to your skill level.
- Challenges grow as you develop new skills.
- Failures are learning opportunities because every time you make a mistake, you get a hint about how you can do bett...
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Rewarding human experience
There are 4 categories here:
- Satisfying work: clearly defined challenging activities, that provide clear feedback.
- The experience or promise of success: we want to feel we are getting better over time.
- Meaningfulness: being a part of something bigge...
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Sabotaging yourself
Intelligent people allow themselves to get bored too easily.
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Be prepared to give and take
A good conversation is more likely to happen if you follow this simple rule: I will give you the space to speak and will listen to what you say. You show interest in the other person, and the person shows interest in what you have to say.
This is not easy and perhaps the r...
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