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How Video Games Can Level Up the Way You Learn @TED #ted #shorts

Known as “the professor of video games,” Kris Alexander advocates for the power of video games to enhance learning and teaching. Watch his full TED Talk:

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Known as “the professor of video games,” Kris Alexander advocates for the power of video games to enhance learning and teaching. Watch his full TED Talk:

33 Comments

  1. Help me reach 44k subs without any Videos

    April 24, 2023 at 12:06 pm

    Congrats to all who is early and found this comment 🥳

  2. esobed1

    April 24, 2023 at 12:08 pm

    Simulators are the best games for education. Had my sons and nephews playing Civilization, SimCity, America’s Army (not Call of Duty) Madden/NBA ( in season mode) consistently. It really paid off.

    All kinds of simulations out there, surgical/medical ones are great. It is up to parents as well to guide kids to these products… no age is too young ( playing Civ 3 at age 8).

  3. David Mickles

    April 24, 2023 at 12:18 pm

    This will either work or be the worst idea ever

    • B Whittaker

      April 24, 2023 at 3:05 pm

      @AwesomeBlackDude elaborate?

  4. Eddie Chan

    April 24, 2023 at 12:24 pm

    So… make education addictive?

    j/k of course.

    It’s all about engagement, for about teachers & students.

    I naturally excelled on STEM courses except Biology, which was all latin to me (literally) and nothing else much. But what I remember most 30 years later was History II, thanks to the teacher. He told the history of the late 19th/1st-half of the 20th-century with a PASSION. Turned me into a life-long news & politics reader.

  5. Doglover14

    April 24, 2023 at 12:32 pm

    I learned more in playing warcraft then i remember at skook

  6. AwesomeBlackDude

    April 24, 2023 at 12:59 pm

    Actually we have a bigger problem to have this technology we literally need to go to nuclear war to maintain it. How’s that for educational purposes.

  7. K4R3N

    April 24, 2023 at 1:20 pm

    dude moves like a NPC

    • JZS

      April 24, 2023 at 3:29 pm

      Or NPCs move like him

  8. Roni

    April 24, 2023 at 1:32 pm

    i feel itll be great for adhd as well. My bf has trouble focusing on lectures and reading textbooks, but video games engage him enough that he can stay focused for a prolonged period of time.

  9. Lex Boogie

    April 24, 2023 at 1:37 pm

    I can’t tell you how invaluable games like Math Blaster, Mavis Beacon, Oregon Trail and Carmen Sandiego were in educating me and sharpening my skills as a kid. I just wish those types of games had evolved into a more exciting experience for gen Z kids and younger millennials. Because educational games look lame to the average kid these days.

    • Sareaesque

      April 25, 2023 at 4:20 am

      I learnt so much through the Carmen Sadiego games!

  10. Eric Estes

    April 24, 2023 at 1:48 pm

    Glad to see this being taken seriously

  11. AznDudeIsOn

    April 24, 2023 at 3:23 pm

    I lvoe this guys enthusiasm for video games

  12. Gravy

    April 24, 2023 at 3:29 pm

    Set up games that are remote controls to: subs, cave crawlers, boats, drones, etc.
    They say we’ve only explored a portion of the ocean, rain forests, cave systems, etc.

  13. Nichole Murray

    April 24, 2023 at 3:39 pm

    I was always looking forward to the computer games, even if it was educational. Lol why not try it? My only fear is, if the kids have to headphones on, we need a way to alert them quietly if something is going on in the school

  14. NeonVisual

    April 24, 2023 at 4:13 pm

    OK Boomer

  15. Chance Friedman

    April 24, 2023 at 4:32 pm

    Man if kids get to play video games for school soon I’ll be big mad I missed that

  16. l3amp3r

    April 24, 2023 at 4:39 pm

    like that

  17. Lucas Dias

    April 24, 2023 at 5:45 pm

    Say it to Brazilian President!

  18. Googol

    April 24, 2023 at 6:18 pm

    Why do you think the US army develops and distributes its free game?

  19. Katie Gill

    April 24, 2023 at 7:35 pm

    Amen!!!

  20. Hannah Gwyn

    April 24, 2023 at 8:56 pm

    How can I follow you? I see nothing

    • Hannah Gwyn

      April 24, 2023 at 9:07 pm

      Play. Learning. Noam Chomsky. Quaker vernacular.
      Learning while Playing.
      Play is Edu’n.
      Learning is Rebooting.
      Jump!
      You are Energy.

  21. Jaesais🦎

    April 24, 2023 at 10:05 pm

    This guy gets it.

    • Jaesais🦎

      April 24, 2023 at 10:09 pm

      Specifically for construction trades, if they can gamify Plumbers, Electricians and maybe HVAC… if they can pull that off effectively, then it’s gg, economies will boom again.

      If they can make a pathway for Agriculture to not have to be subsidized, but rather allow venues for more farmers… GG, we can have better distribution channels from adding action takers into the mix.

    • Jaesais🦎

      April 24, 2023 at 10:18 pm

      “Clear line of sight to where they are headed.” This is paramount. “Where there is no vision, the people perish.”

      This is why education fails. If students are being taught something worthless (because they don’t see the big picture), then they are doomed to fail.

      You want a student to flourish? Give him the full vision so he can comprehend the scope and fully flesh out his pathway to his future instead of walking a path without faith.

      “Everything that is not based on faith is sin.”

      You want a student to miss the mark? Teach him without him comprehending what he is putting his faith in.

      Best educators guarantee that students visualize. Visualization is paramount else even a Valedictorian will disengage. He may have all the skill in the world, but if he does not envision himself desiring to be a part of the world you are leading him into, he will not follow through and you would have done society a disservice by not guiding talent into their desirable niche.

  22. Simbaibass

    April 25, 2023 at 12:58 am

    He’s trying too hard show he’s passionate. It comes across strange.

  23. BahugVlotca

    April 25, 2023 at 3:40 am

    Subnautica, Industries of Titan, Anno 2070, Starcraft, Etc yeah leatned so much

  24. Pjero Mardesic

    April 25, 2023 at 6:31 am

    💯 nailed it son

  25. iM7mD9099

    April 25, 2023 at 7:51 am

    The future is going to be perfectly perfect 😍

  26. Astronics

    April 25, 2023 at 3:37 pm

    This is a terrible idea

  27. DOPAMINE🧠

    April 25, 2023 at 4:12 pm

    I always thought this.👍👍👍

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