Clearly I haven't posted on this blog for some time. Today I'm commenting on a TED Talk Video with Tom Chatfield talking about "7 Ways to Reward the Brain" through gaming. Since I'm not a big gamer I'm still processing some of the seven points, but one that connected to my prior knowledge about learning is the importance of using multiple long and short term aims by creating game quests in chunks or slices. Learners need to be able to experience small successes as well as the satisfaction of completing larger challenges as they build upon their learning piece by piece.
Also interesting was Chatfield's reference to how players in Everquest learned to self-organize collectively and develop their own currency to accomplish the larger task. I've heard others refer to how gaming promotes self-organization but I appreciate having this real example to mull over and think about how this might be incorporated in future quest design.
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