Chrisman Frank and Ana Lorena Fabrega: How Childhood Education Will Change

When kids do badly at school, it demotivates them. But when kids don’t do well-playing videogames, they bounce back from being defeated and want to try harder. Losing at videogames normalizes mistakes -it teaches kids that it’s okay to try and fail

Computers now do much of what kids are being taught to do in school

As a society, education is moving away from books and lectures and toward software and games

Following a syllabus can be stifling because it doesn’t allow for students to go on a tangent of interest. A syllabus is a rigid road map for teaching and old-fashioned

Kids are used to teachers having the answer, but in this method, the simulations have no right answers

Synthesis uses non-traditional methods – videogames – and designs the lessons not for content but for the experience

When kids play videogames, they practice teaching themselves – how to win – in the process they pick up new skills. Videogames teach problem solving.

Playing videogames helps to make kids resilient – they know they have another chance and will try again

Kids should be taught there are infinite possibilities and to seek careers that don’t even exist yet – they don’t have to fit into what exists