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JANUARY 6, 2025

In a TEDx talk titled The Super Mario Effect–Tricking Your Brain into Learning More , Mark Rober highlighted how video games like Super Mario can motivate people to achieve their goals by viewing failures as learning opportunities.

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MARCH 16, 2021

At some point, gamification was going to be the answer. The approach involved having students read through material at their own pace rather than go to lectures, and move on to the next part of the material after they had passed a test on the previous section. Even Keller later admitted it was a failure, calling it a “flash in the pan.”

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JUNE 24, 2019

Technology and the connected world put a fork in the old model of teaching–instructor in front of the class, sage on the stage, students madly taking notes, textbooks opened, homework as worksheets, and tests regurgitating facts. Failure is a learning tool. In life, failure happens. Did I miss anything? I know—this is a lot.

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MARCH 24, 2015

Technology and the connected world put a fork in the old model of teaching–instructor in front of the class, sage on the stage, students madly taking notes, textbooks opened to the chapter being reviewed, homework as worksheets based on the text, tests regurgitating important facts. Failure is a learning tool.

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JULY 27, 2015

It was run like a flipped classroom where class members picked 60% of daily topics, then they read, tested and experimented. Some had been teaching for thirty years and still enthusiastically embraced everything from twitter to the gamification of education. Failed and tried again. Asked questions. They are life long learners.

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APRIL 18, 2017

But I would say that the failure of ideals doesn't mean that the ideal is bad or unworkable. The idea that Uber is using gamification for incentivizing drivers to earn rewards, and that they're somehow a terrible actor just by doing that, I think is a little bit misleading. Let me speak to the question that you've asked.

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AUGUST 25, 2016

It was run like a flipped classroom where class members read, tested and experimented from resources available in the weekly syllabus. Some had been teaching for thirty years and still enthusiastically embraced everything from twitter to the gamification of education. They failed and tried again. Asked questions. They are inquirers.

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