{"id":11084,"date":"2010-11-01T19:01:03","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T23:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=11084"},"modified":"2010-11-01T19:01:03","modified_gmt":"2010-11-01T23:01:03","slug":"how-games-engage-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/11\/01\/how-games-engage-the-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"How games engage the brain"},"content":{"rendered":"

How games engage the\u00a0brain<\/strong><\/a> — from NspireD2 by Chris Clark<\/p>\n

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In a TED video<\/a> released today, Tom Chatfield presents seven ways in which games engage the brain. Chatfield is a game theorist and author of the new book, Fun, Inc<\/a>., about the gaming industry and how it is altering our society.<\/p>\n

Chatfield\u2019s seven talking points are<\/p>\n

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  1. Experience bars measuring progress<\/li>\n
  2. Multiple long and short-term aims<\/li>\n
  3. Rewards for effort<\/li>\n
  4. Rapid, frequent, clear feedback<\/li>\n
  5. An element of uncertainty<\/li>\n
  6. Windows of enhanced engagement<\/li>\n
  7. Other people<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Of course, that list doesn\u2019t mean much unless you watch the video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    How games engage the\u00a0brain — from NspireD2 by Chris Clark In a TED video released today, Tom Chatfield presents seven ways in which games engage the brain. Chatfield is a game theorist and author of the new book, Fun, Inc., about the gaming industry and how it is altering our society. Chatfield\u2019s seven talking points […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[215,141,406],"tags":[620,294,151,12,765],"class_list":["post-11084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational-games-serious-games","category-engagement-engaging-students","category-motivation","tag-cognitive-psychology-computing","tag-engagement","tag-games","tag-keeping-students-engaged","tag-motivation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11084"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11086,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11084\/revisions\/11086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}