Name: 【TEDx】Life lessons...from video games: Karl Kapp at TEDxNavesink
Uploaded: 2016-07-19T12:27:19.000Z
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and I want to talk to you about life lessons from video games.

I believe video games can teach us all kinds of lessons.

Several years ago I was teaching middle school kids business concepts

using the video game RollerCoaster Tycoon.

In that game in order to run a profitable park,

you have to have  of course a roller-coaster.

But you also have to have certain amenities like trashcans,

you have to have restrooms, you have to have benches,

in order to do that because you get happy customers.

And happy customers stay in your park longer

I was looking around the room and it surprised me that one group of kids

And they're like 'Oh, yeah, we do get unhappy customers,

I said, 'What do you mean you take care of them'.

with the exuberance of middle school students.

They said, 'Well, we bring up this list of all the customers in the park,

And we take that unhappy customer and we grab them

I said, 'You drown unhappy customers?' (Laughter)

They said, 'Yeah, the game lets us do it.'

So at this point, some of you are thinking

'Yeah, I knew it, video games are pretty violent.

Even something as benign as a roller-coaster game,

And if that was the whole story, I'd have to agree with you.

But that's not the whole story about video games,

and that's not the whole story about these kids drowning customers.

While we hear a lot about  the negative aspects of video games

there's a lot of positive aspects of video games that I'd like to talk about.

In fact, there's a growing body of research

about many positive aspects of video games.

For example, the video game World of WarCraft

was mentioned in the Harvard Business Review

as a tool for teaching virtual leadership

which many of you may play  with your kids or grandkids

is being used to teach math and geometry all over the country.

The game Rise of Nations was a topic of a study.

average age of 69 years old, had them play this game

and found out it increased their mental acumen

Action based video games like Assassin's Creed,

as people who don't play action based video games.

So there's a lot of value in video games.

Many, many years ago I was playing a video game with my son

and it was a game where you took off from the aircraft carrier

It was a game that really caused me a lot of problems

because I couldn't take off of that stupid aircraft carrier.

it was shot down again and again and again.

and he got half way to the island with his airplane unscathed.

I said, 'Nate, how did you take off from this aircraft carrier?

I said, 'What do you mean you didn't take off?'

off the left hand side of the aircraft carrier

And he drove his airplane past the ships,

I couldn't believe it, he had found a flaw in the game

that was so outside of my realm of consciousness

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