This video was quite enlightening. First of all I am surprised that the average world of warcraft player plays 22 hours a week. This obviously cannot be good for you because you basically spend a full day of the week playing games. However, based on what Jane McGonigal said, this could lead to the stopping of world hunger. You could play games for half of each day, and then eat a meal and a snack. Then, the other half days worth of food could be given to people in countries where they do not have any food. This may sound crazy, but in my opinion this worked for the ancient people, so it could work for us.
One of the concepts I liked in this video was an "epic win". I think that this is true that an epic win is pretty hard to achieve in real life, but easy to play in games. I think that there should be real life ways to achieve an epic win, because if this can be feasible, people will be a lot happier, knowing that they have just done something amazing. I think the key to this is more realistic and interactive games, to make these virtual worlds seem life like and make it seem like you have just done something great in real life. This will make people more happy.
This was a wonderful video. At first I thought, "Wow, this is crazy! How can playing video games help change the world?" Then she started talking about how we play world of warcraft 22 hours a week. I thought, "That is insane. No one plays that much world of warcraft." After that, she started to talk about an "epic win" and that changed my perspective for the rest of the video because it showed me that I can make an "epic win" in the real world too. That picture of the kid's expression, who was on the verge of an "epic win" really changed my thinking. I loved all the games that she created that show you if something like this happened what would you do? My favorite was game that she made was the one where a robot told all the humans that they only have 23 more years left to live, and you have to figure out how to survie those last 23 years. In conclusion, I loved how she showed people that video games can change the world.
I learned a lot of things from the video, even though those things might not be what the speaker wanted me to learn. From this video, I learned that even if things are not in the real world now, that doesn't mean that you can make them be in the real world. To me this means that having a dream that doesn't seem realistic to happen now doesn't cancel out the option that it will become realistic. Since I am not a big gamer, I didn't understand how gaming more would save the world when I started this video. Now I can understand what Jane McGonigal is trying to say. Even though she did a good job persuading the audience to keep on playing games, I still don't agree with the statement that people should play a lot more games. First, it takes up a lot of time in your day that could be used doing exercise, reading books, or doing anything else that people enjoy doing. Second, after I play half an hour of games, I don't feel as good as when I read for half an hour.
I think that this video is very cool and interesting. Jane McGonigal mentions how she thinks that more gamers and more gaming can make the world a better place. At first, I didn't believe her. Then she told us about how a Greek philosopher said that some ancient people had played dice games all day every other day for 18 years to survive. I believed at first that maybe the philosopher made it up, but Ms. McGonigal said that archeological proof was found that says that the story was true, and that a civilization survived by playing games very frequently. Also, she says that more gaming will help us in our everyday lives because it can make us more optimistic, more cooperative, more happy, and more able to do amazing things. In the game-world, we can easily solve world problems, but in real life, we automatically think that we can't. Ms. McGonigall wants to let us be more confident that we can do anything. I am a little concerned that this many new gamers can be an issue, but as she says, this could be a huge new revolution of happier, more productive people.
I thought this was the most amazing TED talks I have even seen. It is amazing to learn that playing video games can change the world. Everyone always gives up, and gaming can change what people see in certain things. I really learned a lot from this TED talk because it had so much interesting information. At first I thought, "Wow. THis is amazing. I don't know if I can trust it though." I was really surprised that she told all of this great information that I did not even know existed. All of the numbers in here were amazing. I mean 21 million years! That is crazy. She did a really good job with supporting information and background information. I am not a huge gamer, but know that I know all about this, I might try some of her games. I thought that it was really amazing that she made these games because she is really talented. I am going to start playing games online, because, who knows? Maybe something great will come along.
I agree and don't agree with Jane McGonigal. I agree with her with that there are people that actually say they aren't good in life, and that we should think positive. I think that we should never give up, just like people do in the gaming world. I am not a gamer, so I don't really know what you do in gaming. I don't agree with Jane McGonigal because those 3 billion hours that the world is spending a week is way to much. 21 billio hours would be horrible! I think that gaming is bad because it takes a lot of time away from your day, and you don't feel as good after sitting on the computer for a long time, as playing sports or learning.
Jane McGonigal definitely has some crazy ideas, but they might actually help our world. I visited her website (http://janemcgonigal.com), and found that it's all about gaming. She has given multiple presentations on this subject. Although at first glance you may think that this is a crazy idea, it is actually a very good one. Gamers are always having "epic wins", as she calls it, and that means that they figured something out or completed a goal and are finishing up the game or level for a prize. She is saying that if we can play games enough, as much as 21 billion hours a week (it's really not that much, because it's only about 3 hours a week per person or more than that if someone decides to play a lot because people who can't afford it can't), to get good at solving world problems or even small community problems, then we should be able to transfer that knowledge to the real world and fix problems. The only difficulty is that people might not be able get away from the computer and turn their focus to the real world.
Another idea is what JP mentions in his first comment. If we play games for a certain amount of time to take our attention off of being hungry, we could do that, eat a little bit, and then spread the food around the world so that everyone can eat a meal at least twice a day. The ancient Lydians from 2500 years ago did something similar to this. They would play dice games for two days, and then eat for one, and then play for two, and then eat for one, and so on and so forth. They survived this way for 18 years. If we ever have a food shortage, we could do this and survive until we solve the problems.
If we can accomplish these ideas, our world can improve a lot.
First off, she must have been crazy to even think that 21 billion hours of gaming a week can make a better world. I thought that 3 billion hour a week was enough. Near the end I thought she was going to make sense out of what she was saying, but in my opinion, it was still as confusing as it started off. I also think that her really big dreams she has are never really going to happen, or at least she didn't say what she is doing to get to her insane goal. Another reason I don't agree with her is because, saving the world in real life is more than staring at a television screen and pressing a bunch of buttons with your fingers...
This was a marvelous video. What really shocked me is that the AVERAGE world of warcraft player plays 22 hours a week. That's π hours a day!! I really enjoyed seeing the games that said "if this happened, what would you do" When she started to talk about an "epic win", it really changed my view on the rest of the video because I realized I could make an "epic world" out in the real world. After seeing this video, I realized that we use video games a lot, and it is a major part of our society.
This is such an educating video. I can't believe that the average world of warcraft player plays 22 hours a week. I can't believe that the ancient people played for one day and ate the other. This is interesting because this race survived for 18 years doing this. They also "helped" found Rome, an empire that thrived for decades. Also, an epic win is definetily something I have had when I use to play a lot of video games. I wish these were could happen more in our regular, day to day lives. In conclusion, I found that games seem to make people more happy.
This is a very cool video, but I have to say I disagree with the speaker. I am a gamer myself, I play about 4 to 5 hours a week. I don't agree with the solving problems by gaming theory. When I play, I don't seem to link the strategies I learn in gaming into the real world very often, the only strategies I do use in the real world are social. I still enjoyed listening to the history of games with the Romans and the dice. I found it amazing! This could work if there was a shortage of food somewhere. It's amazing how games can distract you from things like hunger. Even though I disagree with the main idea of this I still like the idea of eating one day and gaming the next.
This is a very cool video, but I have to say I disagree with the speaker. I am a gamer myself, I play about 4 to 5 hours a week. I don't agree with the solving problems by gaming theory. When I play, I don't seem to link the strategies I learn in gaming into the real world very often, the only strategies I do use in the real world are social. I still enjoyed listening to the history of games with the Romans and the dice. I found it amazing! This could work if there was a shortage of food somewhere. It's amazing how games can distract you from things like hunger. Even though I disagree with the main idea of this I still like the idea of eating one day and gaming the next.
I absolutely adore the speaker's perception on the impact of individuals, gaming, and the productivity of this. As you may know (and also like the speaker had said), many supposedly "rational" (not to offend anyone with this particular opinion, or say that is somehow and/or somewhat wrong) individuals, speakers, and anti-gaming enthusiasts tend to have a rather harsh and negative opinion with this topic (i.e. "its 'lessening' productivity", "people become more agitated when only involved with virtual worlds", etc.), when they should encourage it for the reasons from the speaker.
I thought this video was amazing. At first I thought it was flat-out impossible, but then I noticed her point. I love video games, however before viewing this I did not think that they helped the world one bit. The story about the ancient civilization that survived for 18 years by playing games one day and eating the next I found fascinating. I think it is amazing that you forget about things like hunger while playing games. However, most people playing games like WoW aren't helping the world in any direct way. But it is interesting that the skills gamers possess could be used as a resource in helping the world. Also, I do not see how people playing games for 7 times as much time as they do already could possibly help unless there is a more direct way to connect gaming to the problems.
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This video was quite enlightening. First of all I am surprised that the average world of warcraft player plays 22 hours a week. This obviously cannot be good for you because you basically spend a full day of the week playing games. However, based on what Jane McGonigal said, this could lead to the stopping of world hunger. You could play games for half of each day, and then eat a meal and a snack. Then, the other half days worth of food could be given to people in countries where they do not have any food. This may sound crazy, but in my opinion this worked for the ancient people, so it could work for us.
One of the concepts I liked in this video was an "epic win". I think that this is true that an epic win is pretty hard to achieve in real life, but easy to play in games. I think that there should be real life ways to achieve an epic win, because if this can be feasible, people will be a lot happier, knowing that they have just done something amazing. I think the key to this is more realistic and interactive games, to make these virtual worlds seem life like and make it seem like you have just done something great in real life. This will make people more happy.
This was a wonderful video. At first I thought, "Wow, this is crazy! How can playing video games help change the world?" Then she started talking about how we play world of warcraft 22 hours a week. I thought, "That is insane. No one plays that much world of warcraft." After that, she started to talk about an "epic win" and that changed my perspective for the rest of the video because it showed me that I can make an "epic win" in the real world too. That picture of the kid's expression, who was on the verge of an "epic win" really changed my thinking. I loved all the games that she created that show you if something like this happened what would you do? My favorite was game that she made was the one where a robot told all the humans that they only have 23 more years left to live, and you have to figure out how to survie those last 23 years. In conclusion, I loved how she showed people that video games can change the world.
I learned a lot of things from the video, even though those things might not be what the speaker wanted me to learn. From this video, I learned that even if things are not in the real world now, that doesn't mean that you can make them be in the real world. To me this means that having a dream that doesn't seem realistic to happen now doesn't cancel out the option that it will become realistic. Since I am not a big gamer, I didn't understand how gaming more would save the world when I started this video. Now I can understand what Jane McGonigal is trying to say. Even though she did a good job persuading the audience to keep on playing games, I still don't agree with the statement that people should play a lot more games. First, it takes up a lot of time in your day that could be used doing exercise, reading books, or doing anything else that people enjoy doing. Second, after I play half an hour of games, I don't feel as good as when I read for half an hour.
I think that this video is very cool and interesting. Jane McGonigal mentions how she thinks that more gamers and more gaming can make the world a better place. At first, I didn't believe her. Then she told us about how a Greek philosopher said that some ancient people had played dice games all day every other day for 18 years to survive. I believed at first that maybe the philosopher made it up, but Ms. McGonigal said that archeological proof was found that says that the story was true, and that a civilization survived by playing games very frequently. Also, she says that more gaming will help us in our everyday lives because it can make us more optimistic, more cooperative, more happy, and more able to do amazing things. In the game-world, we can easily solve world problems, but in real life, we automatically think that we can't. Ms. McGonigall wants to let us be more confident that we can do anything. I am a little concerned that this many new gamers can be an issue, but as she says, this could be a huge new revolution of happier, more productive people.
I thought this was the most amazing TED talks I have even seen. It is amazing to learn that playing video games can change the world. Everyone always gives up, and gaming can change what people see in certain things. I really learned a lot from this TED talk because it had so much interesting information. At first I thought, "Wow. THis is amazing. I don't know if I can trust it though." I was really surprised that she told all of this great information that I did not even know existed. All of the numbers in here were amazing. I mean 21 million years! That is crazy. She did a really good job with supporting information and background information. I am not a huge gamer, but know that I know all about this, I might try some of her games. I thought that it was really amazing that she made these games because she is really talented. I am going to start playing games online, because, who knows? Maybe something great will come along.
I agree and don't agree with Jane McGonigal. I agree with her with that there are people that actually say they aren't good in life, and that we should think positive. I think that we should never give up, just like people do in the gaming world. I am not a gamer, so I don't really know what you do in gaming. I don't agree with Jane McGonigal because those 3 billion hours that the world is spending a week is way to much. 21 billio hours would be horrible! I think that gaming is bad because it takes a lot of time away from your day, and you don't feel as good after sitting on the computer for a long time, as playing sports or learning.
Jane McGonigal definitely has some crazy ideas, but they might actually help our world. I visited her website (http://janemcgonigal.com), and found that it's all about gaming. She has given multiple presentations on this subject. Although at first glance you may think that this is a crazy idea, it is actually a very good one. Gamers are always having "epic wins", as she calls it, and that means that they figured something out or completed a goal and are finishing up the game or level for a prize. She is saying that if we can play games enough, as much as 21 billion hours a week (it's really not that much, because it's only about 3 hours a week per person or more than that if someone decides to play a lot because people who can't afford it can't), to get good at solving world problems or even small community problems, then we should be able to transfer that knowledge to the real world and fix problems. The only difficulty is that people might not be able get away from the computer and turn their focus to the real world.
Another idea is what JP mentions in his first comment. If we play games for a certain amount of time to take our attention off of being hungry, we could do that, eat a little bit, and then spread the food around the world so that everyone can eat a meal at least twice a day. The ancient Lydians from 2500 years ago did something similar to this. They would play dice games for two days, and then eat for one, and then play for two, and then eat for one, and so on and so forth. They survived this way for 18 years. If we ever have a food shortage, we could do this and survive until we solve the problems.
If we can accomplish these ideas, our world can improve a lot.
First off, she must have been crazy to even think that 21 billion hours of gaming a week can make a better world. I thought that 3 billion hour a week was enough. Near the end I thought she was going to make sense out of what she was saying, but in my opinion, it was still as confusing as it started off. I also think that her really big dreams she has are never really going to happen, or at least she didn't say what she is doing to get to her insane goal. Another reason I don't agree with her is because, saving the world in real life is more than staring at a television screen and pressing a bunch of buttons with your fingers...
This was a marvelous video. What really shocked me is that the AVERAGE world of warcraft player plays 22 hours a week. That's π hours a day!! I really enjoyed seeing the games that said "if this happened, what would you do" When she started to talk about an "epic win", it really changed my view on the rest of the video because I realized I could make an "epic world" out in the real world. After seeing this video, I realized that we use video games a lot, and it is a major part of our society.
This is such an educating video. I can't believe that the average world of warcraft player plays 22 hours a week. I can't believe that the ancient people played for one day and ate the other. This is interesting because this race survived for 18 years doing this. They also "helped" found Rome, an empire that thrived for decades. Also, an epic win is definetily something I have had when I use to play a lot of video games. I wish these were could happen more in our regular, day to day lives. In conclusion, I found that games seem to make people more happy.
This is a very cool video, but I have to say I disagree with the speaker. I am a gamer myself, I play about 4 to 5 hours a week. I don't agree with the solving problems by gaming theory. When I play, I don't seem to link the strategies I learn in gaming into the real world very often, the only strategies I do use in the real world are social. I still enjoyed listening to the history of games with the Romans and the dice. I found it amazing! This could work if there was a shortage of food somewhere. It's amazing how games can distract you from things like hunger. Even though I disagree with the main idea of this I still like the idea of eating one day and gaming the next.
This is a very cool video, but I have to say I disagree with the speaker. I am a gamer myself, I play about 4 to 5 hours a week. I don't agree with the solving problems by gaming theory. When I play, I don't seem to link the strategies I learn in gaming into the real world very often, the only strategies I do use in the real world are social. I still enjoyed listening to the history of games with the Romans and the dice. I found it amazing! This could work if there was a shortage of food somewhere. It's amazing how games can distract you from things like hunger. Even though I disagree with the main idea of this I still like the idea of eating one day and gaming the next.
I absolutely adore the speaker's perception on the impact of individuals, gaming, and the productivity of this. As you may know (and also like the speaker had said), many supposedly "rational" (not to offend anyone with this particular opinion, or say that is somehow and/or somewhat wrong) individuals, speakers, and anti-gaming enthusiasts tend to have a rather harsh and negative opinion with this topic (i.e. "its 'lessening' productivity", "people become more agitated when only involved with virtual worlds", etc.), when they should encourage it for the reasons from the speaker.
I thought this video was amazing. At first I thought it was flat-out impossible, but then I noticed her point. I love video games, however before viewing this I did not think that they helped the world one bit. The story about the ancient civilization that survived for 18 years by playing games one day and eating the next I found fascinating. I think it is amazing that you forget about things like hunger while playing games. However, most people playing games like WoW aren't helping the world in any direct way. But it is interesting that the skills gamers possess could be used as a resource in helping the world. Also, I do not see how people playing games for 7 times as much time as they do already could possibly help unless there is a more direct way to connect gaming to the problems.
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