The potential is huge... can we use this for education? Can we get people to exercise more, give up smoking and drinking, be better people, work harder, play harder and have a happier life (by their own standards) by using such ideas?
The irony of driving to the gym is still lost on many, and fully aware of the irony, this particular blogger has been guilty of it on many occasions.
So what are the options?
Does it mean all education has to be converted into a game, with some kind of reward for correct answers? Does that devalue the knowledge gained - or surely the intention should be to teach 'by any means possible', right?
this is great....so simple and yet so effective. apart from more fun, exercise, putting a smile on people's faces, imagine all the energy we can save if we didn't have the escalator on all the time....I wonder how it would work in Central London during the rush hour....worth a try?
ReplyDeleteAnd yet I can see the extremes of Health and Safety coming to play, ensuring that anything that disrupted the flow of foot traffic be a bad thing.
ReplyDeleteHowever, if you take the concept of education as a game, it opens up a world of possibilities.