Too often as adults, we hear things like, “Life isn’t game,” and likely just as many times, we think for a split second that it should be. Research has shown that game-based learning increases the amount of knowledge and skill retained through active participation and experimentation in learning. Game-based learning is teaching through gameplay, a method of testing an action, reviewing the result, forging a theory, and testing again; but in this case, it’s fun! Games-based learning, because it isn’t your parent’s classroom of the 21st century, isn’t just slightly different than those of 10 years ago; they are vastly different, and changing technologies keep them fluid and in need of constant updating. Yet with all the advancements in science and technology, there is one thing that remains constant, the desire to play.
Playing is like brain candy; the mind devours information in game-play, processing it, driving us to learn just to get better because we are competitive creatures and we derive joy from success.
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