What Is Meta? Donald Una
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A gamer teacher rants about things that irks him... enrages him even.
This is his therapy.
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There Is No "Learn" In Teamwork
Teamwork is not taught explicitly in school. But what would you even teach? How would you effectively train the ability to work in groups?
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Grades Don't Mean Anything
Grades are so arbitrary and based on such a weird system that kids get weird ideas about themselves and generally stop giving a crap about them. So how can we think about grades in order to start fixing the problem?
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Why Do All These Aliens Speak English?
The common issues of worldbuilding and how Twilight, Bright, and Lord of the Rings do it.
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Gamification of School
Schools are set up stupidly. Games have a lot to teach schools. And a lot of attempts to do so or stupid.
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Leveling Up Skills With Video Games
Video games have a potent application in education. I collaborated to create an ecology game that combined a quarter's worth of material into a 9 week experience.
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Your Emotions Are Not Welcome
Do you ever wish someone had told you some advice that would have saved you years of regret? Well school doesn't want to foster that. I describe why the school system leaves out ahuge part of growing up.