What am I working on now

My current focus is designing games for classrooms that improve children’s capability to collaborate on solving complex problems.

Core ideas & hypotheses

• Education can and should be massively improved. The way we educate children in most schools today is ineffective, boring, and, in the worst cases, it’s hurting children’s confidence and creativity.
• If we effectively educate people in critical thinking, self-awareness, ethics and collaboration, the world will tend to better outcomes for all life.
• Games are unique powerful learning tools that (if used correctly) can make education more effective and enjoyable. They do this by creating enabling environments for learning through direct immersive experience.
• How to design fun games people want to play for their own sake, that are at the same time optimized for learning without making them “educational” is an unknown territory.
• How to design games that are at the same time fun experiences people want to play for the sake of playing AND that are optimized for maximum individual and collective learning is an unknown territoty requiring more research and experimentation.

Questions I’m exploring

• More people play games today than ever. What can we do to harness their build up potential towards making the world better?
• What can we learn from games that we can apply in life?
• How to make education more effective and enjoyable?
• How to effectivelly transfer learning from games to other areas of life?
• How to make games that increase our capacity to solve complex problems?
• How to make games that increase our capacity to collaborate on massive scales?
• How to measure the transfer of skills from games to real-world situations?
• What cultural barriers exist to using games as serious learning tools in education?
• …