In a Feral Age. . .playing fluently with trackers
Jason Morningstar:
Thanks, that's exactly what I was curious about. I appreciate you taking the time to lay it out.
Joel P. Shempert:
Cool beans. Any impressions or observations?
Jason Morningstar:
My impression is that you are systematizing procedures that must happen anyway, no judgment implied. I like the idea of atomizing the various techniques for clarity, particularly the social ones.
The WAYK videos appear to be teaching English to someone who already speaks English.
Joel P. Shempert:
Quote from: Jason Morningstar on October 09, 2009, 04:12:43 AM
My impression is that you are systematizing procedures that must happen anyway, no judgment implied.
You betcha! This is really more about recognizing the processes and being intentional about them, than it is about building anything new.
Quote from: Jason Morningstar on October 09, 2009, 04:12:43 AM
The WAYK videos appear to be teaching English to someone who already speaks English.
Joel P. Shempert:
Whoops! Hit "post" too soon! REDO:
Quote from: Jason Morningstar on October 09, 2009, 04:12:43 AM
My impression is that you are systematizing procedures that must happen anyway, no judgment implied.
You betcha! This is really more about recognizing the processes and being intentional about them, than it is about building anything new. This enables us to bring every player along in the process and, as I said, enable them to duplicate it for themselves.
Quote from: Jason Morningstar on October 09, 2009, 04:12:43 AM
The WAYK videos appear to be teaching English to someone who already speaks English.
Actually, they're teaching American Sign language. But that's only the first step. Once you've learned the signs and welded them to English, they then act like a bridge to other languages. Want to learn Chinese? Play a round of WAYK in English until that set of signs is second nature, THEN play a round in Chinese using those signs. Which is exactly what Jake Richmond and Ben Lehman did with Evan awhile back (You can see an excerpt of the English-language portion in the "Technique: Obviously" video).
But in any case, the main relevance to gaming is, I think, the general learning-process principles WAYK espouses--Be obvious, group concepts conceptually, repeat techniques until they're second nature, and so on.
Peace,
-Joel
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