"Students generally prefer video games to our math classes and I wanted to know why. So I played a lot of video games and read a bit about video games and drew some conclusions. I also asked my in-laws to play two video games in front of a camera so we could watch their learning process and draw comparisons to our students.
These are the six lessons I learned:
- Video games get to the point.
- The real world is overrated.
- Video games have an open middle.
- The middle grows more challenging and more interesting at the same time.
- Instruction is visual, embedded in practice, and only as needed.
- Video games lower the cost of failure."