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• A comment on Conversation: We spend 3 billion hours a week as a planet playing videogames. Is it worth it? How could it be MORE worth it?

  Mar 2 2011: Nice speech. Anyway I think we (gamers) have more "powers" than the ones you said. :)

• A reply on Conversation: We spend 3 billion hours a week as a planet playing videogames. Is it worth it? How could it be MORE worth it?

  Mar 2 2011: There is one game, called Commandos. It is not exactly what you want, but it is a very nice strategical game and you don't really need to have very good gaming skills to play it.

• A reply on Conversation: We spend 3 billion hours a week as a planet playing videogames. Is it worth it? How could it be MORE worth it?

  Mar 2 2011: I was a gamer and I can tell you that it is an escape to play games. It is challenging, it is relaxing, you can socialize etc.. What is wrong about it, is that you become addicted and most of the gamers can't stop playing, and they don't want to stop either. So it is your choice actually if you are connected or not to the real world.
  
  Anyway I think nobody can explain a non-gamer who you fill like, so you should start playing.
  The problem is that games now-days are to complex for a begging to start and play and fell the pleasure of it immediately. So you can't just play World of Warcraft if you don't know how to use the keyboard, you don't know the spells, you don't know the basic skills, I bet you don't even know what XP, AP, MP means and what are they used for.
  
  So that's why if you really want to give it a shoot you should start easy games that suits you.
  Strategy games, Logical Games, Adventure Games, there are s many games right now that it is impossible not to find one that you like. Tell me what you would like to play and I can recommend you a game.

• A reply on Conversation: We spend 3 billion hours a week as a planet playing videogames. Is it worth it? How could it be MORE worth it?

  Mar 2 2011: That's because the creativity part of the brain comes in to roll.
  Read this http://www.gizmowatch.com/entry/left-vs-right-brain-test-for-creativity-or-logic/
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  A comment on Conversation: Are Educational Institutions responding to the challenges of teaching and learning in the 21st Century?

  Mar 2 2011: Short remark. How can you learn this in University's : http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/universities-teach-harry-potter-classes-2136367.html
  Really aren't there more interesting things in life to be learned ?
  
  "St. Catherine College in St. Paul, Minnesota
  A literature class requiring the reading of all seven J.K. Rowling books for group discussions. The final project lets students create a Hogwarts character for a computer game."
  
  I don't see how this can help an individual in life.
  As Jamie Oliver said in one of his TED conferences, we should learn how to cook first. In research for innovation we are loosing the basic skills we need to know.