Some Gatekeeping
Life is not a game. Governance is not a game. Education is not a game, and Love is definitely not a game.
Life is not a game. Governance is not a game. Education is not a game, and Love is definitely not a game.
Since folks asked so nicely, here are the slides from my Micropresentation. The full script for the talk is in the notes section.
I've tried to keep this installment on games and narrative shorter than the previous one, but I'm afraid I haven't been entirly successful. After all, this post dips into some pretty deep theoretical territory and you know how that goes. At any rate, this post starts with a conversation that happened on Google+ in a thread John Woodring started about gamification in education . At some point in the thread, Roger Travis and I drifted into a fairly theoretical conversation about games and narrative.