Week 3--Are Video Games Making Kids Smarter?

3 things you learned:

1.       The act of learning produced brain matter, which reinforced the idea the multi-lingual people out-perform monolingual.

2.       5 things you can do to increase fluid intelligence (recurring theme in successful video games):

a.       Seek novelty

b.      Challenge yourself

c.       Think creatively

d.      Do things the hard way

e.      Network

3.       Constant and exponential increase in learning with video games

4.       Flynn effect (rising IQ)

a.       Pattern of human intelligence over time. Fluid intelligence has been rising each year since 1990.

5.       Video games release dopamine that gives someone a positive intrinsic value to repeat the experience.

2 things you agree or disagree with:

1.       Disagree

a.       I think that kids are still willing to sit down to read a good book. I don’t believe that our world is “too slow” for our kids today.

2.       Agree

a.       Learning is fun and learning is multi-player.

1 question you have:

1.       What is gamification? Is that like globalization for games?