I really have been enjoying this book so far. I really like how Jane really believes that video games can help the world. I am actually starting to believe her which is a great thing. She talks about how real world and gaming are different in terms of desire. There is a game called "chores" where the player does actual chores online like making your bed and doing dishes. She states that her husband plays this game, but will not do chores in real life. "If we are forced to do something, or if we halfheartedly, we're not really participating. If we don't care how it all turns out, we're not really participating. If we're passively waiting it out, we're not really participating"(124). This made me really think about me education growing up. When I was in school as a child I didn't go to school for the right reasons. I went so my parents wouldn't be mad at me and I went to get a good job some day. I would study the information that I was supposed to do, but I never retained the information after the test. If you asked me what I learned in 8th grade I could not tell you. I was only going through the motions and I was not being a thinker. I love this new era of educators where they are teaching kids how to think outside the box and are not forcing them to just memorize facts, but learn skills. In my era there was only one way to do things and that was it.
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