Sacred Symbols+, Episode 216 | The Quest to Gamify Schools (Patreon)

Please welcome Adam Hinton to the show. Adam is a Canadian teacher and consultant, and he's obsessed with the intersection of video games and education. After all, as our children become increasingly bombarded with a litany of technologies, it's important to be able to effectively leverage them to improve their lives. For years and years, young people around the world go to school. Video games are looked at as one of many respites from the grind, a quaint pastime at best and a waste of time at worst. But what if games and school could be successfully fused, with titles mined for their value beyond mere entertainment? We've come a long way from MECC, Carmen Sandiego, and Flash and Java. As argued within, gamifying the classroom may be the single best thing we can do for future generations. As it turns out, it may be time to go where the kids are, and not vice-versa.