THE WORLD OF GAMING AND ITS WAYS OF SAVING THE WORLD

THE WORLD OF GAMING AND ITS WAYS OF SAVING THE WORLD
From my notes I can summarize that the whole point of her speech was to get across the message that gaming can lead to saving the world. She talks about gamers experiencing an "epic win." This is when the gamers feel that they can accomplish anything because they have succeeded in their online gaming. She suggests that we play 21000000000000 hours of video games a week in order to have the mind set to save the world. She says this would help save the world due to the fact that in video games, no one is ever handed a challenge that they cannot over come in some way. In real life, however, that is not the case. There are many situations in which we cannot over come our challenges. The evolution of man was brought into play in comparing how video games help to develop our ability to try to save the world in reality today. If we were to spend as much time playing video games as we do in school, than she believes that we would be able to figure out some way to help the world and its problems. The online games can help build problem solving skills for our everyday lives. It also creates bonds through online communication with other gamers, taking steps to being a team in solving problems. She talked about the first time that games were played with dice that were made from sheeps knuckles. These games resulted in saving a whole civilization. Her main point overall was just that gaming provides for ways to problem solve and building helping bonds which in turn can help us solve problems in the everyday world.