The document discusses how video games have become more complex over time to better engage the brain. It notes that the brain evolved to solve survival problems outdoors and seeks patterns, emotional connections, and collaborative learning. Several experts are quoted saying that video games can better teach concepts like survival, literacy, and learning than traditional schooling by embedding better learning theories and providing "tasty patterns of reality." A few educational games are also listed.

2. Tic Tac Toe

3. Pong

4. Galaga

5. SimCity

6. World of Warcraft

7. games
haven’t
gotten
simpler over
time

8. they’ve gotten more
complex

9. Why?

10. because the brain
demands it

11. “The brain developed to solve
problems relating to surviving in
an unstable, outdoor environment
and to do so in near constant
motion.”
John Medina
Brain Rules

12. can I eat it?

13. can it
eat me?

14. can I have sex
with it?

15. what then . . .
is your job?

16. convince a middle
school kid that a five
paragraph essay
is essential for her
survival

17. brains
search for
patterns

20. brains work best when emotional
chemicals are increased

23. brains want to
work with
others

24. games provide “tasty patterns of
reality”

25. games create emotional
connections

26. games encourage collaborative
learning

27. games become about
“survival”

28. “Better theories of learning are
embedded in the video games many
children play than in the schools
they attend.”
James Gee
What Video Games Have to Teach Us
About Literacy & Learning

29. Grand Theft Childhood
Lawrence Kutner
How Computer Games Help
Children Learn
David Williamson Shaffer
Don’t Bother Me, Mom --
I’m Learning!
Marc Prensky

30. what’s makin’
sense?

31. your games?

32. Some great examples

33. Trave ler IQ

34. www.stopdisastersgame.org

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