2018 EDU: WRITE: Challenge: Hero's Journey. Game. Learning. Schools. Can you connect these?

Challenge:  Hero's Journey.  Games.  Learning.  Schools.  Can you connect these?  

Challenge-based presentation:  I challenge readers to formulate their views.   I offer with some helpful links.

What is the challenge here?

• Hero's Journey--wikipedia
• Events call a hero to a quest presenting several major challenges.
• The hero overcomes every challenge and wins the final battle. 
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• Starwars, Episode 4
• Clash of the Titans
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• Game--wikipedia 
• Key components of games are goals, rules, challenge, and interaction. 
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• Learn by challenge in virtual worlds: Games, projects, Maker Model
• The power of myths: How Stories Shape What We Believe
• Jane, Plain Jane: In eight scenes. A short story as a writing exercise
• The Tortoise and The Hare, modernized

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• OSCC 2017 PresentationsMal Burns: Inworld Review
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• Hyperica, Directory of Opensimulator hypergrid destinations
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• Hypergrid Destinations
• Hypergrid-related articles in this blog

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Related

• Massacre at Wounded Knee, example of project-based learning in virtual worlds
• Social games for social VR: A virtual match game
• We are wired to innovate. Do schools teach creativity?
• Virtual worlds can host challenge-based learning
• CoSpaces: Virtual worlds for grade school. Maker movement again
• The Maker Movement and the potential of virtual worlds
• Problems and the seven gates to solving them. Like a game. Coincidence? Or something else?

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• About education
• Sailing in virtual worlds
• About Videos
• Sights of the virtual worlds
• People of the virtual worlds
• About business

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