{"id":115,"date":"2016-05-02T05:48:09","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T05:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eidersuso.net\/design\/?p=115"},"modified":"2020-12-04T00:57:05","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T00:57:05","slug":"115","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/eidersuso.net\/design\/2016\/05\/02\/115\/","title":{"rendered":"Do video games make you smarter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do kids these days have short attention spans, or does the world just move too slow? Gabe Zichermann suggests that today&#8217;s video games are making children smarter \u2014 and we should all embrace gamification.<\/p>\n<p>Gabe Zichermann is an entrepreneur and author whose work centers on gamification&#8211;and the power of games to help engage people and build strong organizations and communities. In 2010, he chaired the Gamification summit, a conference dedicated to gamification and \u201cengagement mechanics.\u201d An avid blogger on the subject, he co-authored the book <a href=\"http:\/\/geni.us\/gamebasedmarketing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Game-Based Marketing<\/em><\/a>, which examines the innovative trend of using game mechanics to engage and build a customer base.<\/p>\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"TEDxKids@Brussels - Gabe Zichermann - Gamification\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O2N-5maKZ9Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thumbs.dreamstime.com\/z\/work-smart-not-hard-vector-illustration-brain-cartoon-37525688.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Illustration\u00a0.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do kids these days have short attention spans, or does the world just move too slow? Gabe Zichermann suggests that today&#8217;s video games are making children smarter \u2014 and we should all embrace gamification. Gabe Zichermann is an entrepreneur and author whose work centers on gamification&#8211;and the power of games to help engage people and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":117,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coding","has-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eidersuso.net\/design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/eidersuso.net\/design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/eidersuso.net\/design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eidersuso.net\/design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eidersuso.net\/design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/eidersuso.net\/design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2159,"href":"http:\/\/eidersuso.net\/design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/2159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eidersuso.net\/design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eidersuso.net\/design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eidersuso.net\/design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eidersuso.net\/design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}