by Eric Westervelt, NPR
The basic idea is that if you’re close to succeeding at something, you’ll try until you succeed. That is, if a system — a game or anything else — gives you sense of even partial accomplishment, you will do almost anything to get to that goal. A Japanese neuroscientist once said something along the lines of, “If you think you’ll be able to catch the bus, you’ll run for it.” Translating that to classwork, if you give someone enough success with something and a sense they can go all the way, that is incredibly attractive, and they’ll do almost anything to get all the way.
http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2015/06/01/408540387/exploding-myths-about-learning-through-gaming
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