I liked the ideas raised by the point that success and failure are accepted elements of gaming and how this offers benefits to the sphere of education (Briggs, 2016). As a parent it is always difficult to teach your child about the acceptable nature of failure, and the way that it teaches just as well as success. We steer away from talking about failures and instead tend to devote more time to the promotion of successes. Briggs (2016) makes the point in gaming these failures don’t have such an impact because of the notion of it being a game, and that this notion of failing to improve is invaluable.
Reference
Briggs, S. (2016, January 16). Using gaming principles to engage students. In InformED. Retrieved from https://www.opencolleges.edu.au/informed/features/using-gaming-principles-to-engage-students/
