Gamifying Education: We Back, Baby
Topics: Games, Education, Edutainment
It’s the best topics: education and games —- yet, I feel like so much said at these types of events is always “theory” versus actual implementation. Then again, the second-to-last blog I wrote even showed that A LOT of money is pouring into education. It’s the #1 industry for new hires (like six times more than any other) - and of course, people want to make “learning” more fun. I think the trend will finally catch up here soon (and the USA will finally be a bit more like China, where I was living for 4 years, and saw that they had epic learning tools and strategies and classes and norms and everything, and then I was like WHAT THE HECK, AMERICA?! CATCH UP!! We be sleepin’ over here!!) Let’s see what the top industry leaders are saying about the future of games in education.
Why Attend: There couldn’t be a more on-brand event for me… and so I’ve GOTTA get myself to go. I just think that… idk what it is. I’m in this season of strange (and I had a minor scooter accident last Sunday ANDDD it’s been FREEZING here… AND they're practicing a new subway line - opening in a month - which makes a new train arrive every 1-2 minutes at each station, basically, so I can’t busk cause eveyones either rushing to the trains or it’s freezing). So, I’ve just been in “learn/hybernation” mode for most of February. No joke. So… lemme DRESS TO IMPRESS (for the first time all week!), get my sh*t together, and attend this mo-fo. (And, I’ve put my “weekly routine” on hold for a week. If you go back, like, 3 blogs you’ll see it. But, I’ll write a new blog next week once my knees have fully healed from my scooter accident and I’m back in action. I’m just letting myself be in this mood while it’s here). My energy and motivation have been so low lately. I feel like I’m behaving as if I’m in the 3rd term of a pregnancy all over again (I’m not) but I’m just like, learning a mile a minute obsessively about the metaphysical/multidimensional world, working on adding/recruiting/interviewing interns, adding/teaching more classes/students, and a LOT of prep to market like CRAZY on platforms I haven’t used in nearly a decade/ever (facebook, instagram/tiktok). Letttssss gooooo.
