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From www.forbes.com - June 12, 2013 10:41 AM

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More Evidence Steven Johnson was onto something when he wrote All Tings BAD are GOOD For You. I love Johnson's book because he discusses the pervasive influence of video games and video game creation thinking on our lives and marketing.

Francis X Carmody's curator insight, June 15, 2013 8:20 AM

Wow! Lots of Christian parents are likely to freak over this one! :-) No wonder we can't get more support for game *designers* as well...

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From www.emaxhealth.com - March 10, 2013 9:38 AM

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Steven Johnson's book Everything Bad Is Good For You supplements this post nicely. Our contemporary world is complex and crowded. Video games teach an essential set of skills via play and fun.

Adults Learn Best When Engaged
I can't sit in class anymore. Its too passive. My consumption is active, I want to take when I read, watch or find and share it across my nets. I learn best the way medical students are taught:

* Watch One.
* Do One.

* Teach one.

Video games create the watch, do, teach dynamic AND the combine it with our most open and creative "brain", the "play brain". I write this and admit I am NOT a video gamer, something I hope to fix soon (at 55). Why? Because its fun.

* Steven discusses Everything Bad on BootTV: http://www.booktv.org/Program/5731/quotEverything+Bad+is+Good+for+You+How+Todays+Popular+Culture+is+Making+Us+Smarterquot.aspx

cellulari-dual-sim's comment, March 12, 2013 10:24 PM

lovin play Nintendo 3DS games, Playstation Break 3 and Xbox 360 video games

cellulari-dual-sim's curator insight, March 12, 2013 10:26 PM

fond of play Nintendo 3DS, Xbox 360, Playstation Break 3 Video Games

Yann Leroux's comment, March 31, 2013 1:52 PM

Steven Johnson's book is just awesome!

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From www.youtube.com - April 8, 2013 8:50 AM

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Gabe Zichermann, author of Gamification by Design, debunks the idea that games are "bad" for kids. Good companion to Everything Bad Is Good For you by Steven Johnson.

"Kids have to have an extraordinary multi-tasking skill," says Gabe with great research examples. Gabe links the Flyn Effect, the idea that people are getting smarter, to video games.

The argument Zihermann makes for children is applicable to business as well. Engagment beats non-engagment and games create engagement.

Ken Morrison's comment, April 8, 2013 2:59 AM

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Ken Morrison's curator insight, April 8, 2013 7:54 AM

20% of Earth top 1000 corporations will incorporate some aspect of gamification into their marketing or product design by 2015. What does that mean for you and the future workers who you are raising?

Martin (Marty) Smith's comment, April 9, 2013 7:11 AM

Future workers are so comfortable with game constructs to NOT use them is crazy.

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