SXSW EDU
Best known for her work as a pioneering game designer and author of the bestselling books Reality is Broken and SuperBetter, Jane McGonigal, PhD, has also spent the past decade working as a futurist. Watch her SXSWedu 2016 keynote, How to Think (and Learn) Like a Futurist, now!
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Idk exactly what I was expecting from this lecture, but it def exceeded my expectations. The speaker also sounds like a genuinely good person who's done positive work with non-profit organizations. I think her stay-home dance game would've been great for our latest pandemic, too!
25:25 (quarantine, Top Secret Dance Off) particularly apt now. Runs to 30:30. Quick intro to SuperStruct learning game at 24:28.
Political correctness aside. This video should be titled "How to Think (and Learn) Like a Liberal". I can appreciate Jane's idea of how to analyze and use a structured approach to thinking and attempting to analyze how specific factors will add up to a trend or path the future can take. But lets face it. There are too many unforeseen factors that no one can predict that will set the course of the future and thinking about how to control or predict the path or outcome is about 90% a complete waste of time. Liberals love to waste time thinking and collaborating about non-productive issues. This is most certainly one of them. I had to watch this video for a class. I would rather be practicing code, design or photography because it produces real tangible results instead of a bunch of stupid ideas like 3D printed food and VR or putting a professor out of work because I have to teach what he taught me to another student, so I can pay off my massive student debt. Jane may be a great game designer. But games are not reality. They are an escape from reality. That's what they are supposed to be. And that's what Liberals are always trying to do. Avoid the reality and make the dream come true against all odds. In spite of what a shithole they turn the world into. They will persist to turn their dream into a reality.
learningisearning2026.org is not there.
Hannah Sedlar
vor 9 Minuten
I invent/discovered the game "reality lifegame3000" ………..3 Billion hours a week for this
See my video about Future Forecasting and the Muslim world.
A futurist, using Internet Explorer…..
As Jane McGonigal notes, with Bitcoin as the primary proof-of-concept, there are fascinating and powerful ideas underlying blockchain technology. Here is my current list of the top 10 things you need to know about the future of blockchain in education: http://www.edtechstrategies.com/blog/future-blockchain-education/
Personally, I remain optimistic and can’t wait to see where we will take it.