Noted Game designer and author , Jane McGonigal was the Tuesday Keynote speaker at TIES 2014 . The daughter of educators, she started by inviting us to take the next 45 minutes to take games seriously, as a way to shape the future of learning. The GOOD News, there are now 1 Billion Gamers world wide (1 hr./day). Some might argue that 1 Billion hours of gaming per day may not be a good idea... 300 million minutes/day is spent playing Angry Birds. That's 400,000 years! 1 in 4 Call of Duty players call in sick the day a new version is released! 81% of global workers are not engaged in the workplace. (Gallup, 2013) Not connected to a community bigger than yourself, and not optimistic. The longer you stay in school, the LESS ENGAGED you become! 52% of Americans do not feel they have the power to make a difference, yet 7+ Billion hours of time is spent playing games, McGonigal argues because they are looking for something. 99% of boys and 94% of girls spend an hour gaming. ...
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