I’ve always loved gaming.  Ever since I was a kid, video games have been a huge part of my life.  I’ve played games on every single system.  I can remember playing the first Mario Brothers game on the Nintendo Entertainment System or NES.  Then my gaming evolved into once the Super Nintendo (SNES) came out.  Games like Super Mario World and Ninja Turtles were pretty much a daily must.  Then gaming evolved again with the Nintendo 64 and original PlayStation.  It wasn’t until the PlayStation 2 that I decided I was going to be a gamer the rest of my life.  Once I saw Final Fantast x, the graphics and the story blew me away.  I decided then and there that I will always be a gamer.  But, my parents and many other critics have always told me that gaming would get me no where.  To their dismay, it turns out that there are other people who think that gaming can actually get you some where and even save the world.

After seeing jane McGonigal’s video “Gaming can make a better world,” I now have an even different but better perspective about games.  Not only are games fun but they can also help a society that’s so involved in games become a better one.  People like Katie Salen are creating schools that revolve around video games that sill meet the requirements for the curriculum in the State of New York.  This school took video games, something billions of people in today’s society play, and built a school around it because they knew it would be a method a lot of kids would love try.  I know that I would love to go to a school where I could play video games to learn math or science.  I can remember getting a video game on my computer as a kid that made me solve math problems, learn vocab words, and comprehend text to advance in the game and the best part about it was that it was really really fun.

Video games are awesome!  The fact that there are people out there creating games that can help save the world or are making schools around them is simply awesome.  I love these ideas and how they are gearing their ideas around a society that loves to play video games.