Gaming to Learn

Ted Talks presents Tom Chatfield with his view on the positive side to gaming. Using small tasks with immediate feedback and frequent rewards many are hooked on gaming. They are able to collaborate with others on games to reach goals they could not achieve alone. The speaker applies these basic hooks for gaming to the worlds of business, education and government. In education, why not use the same concepts to catch the attention of the learning. Rather than grading in individual assignments, why not create an environment of collaboration and a reward system based on effort in achieving much smaller tasks that accumulate into a much larger goal.