The Acagamic

Jeff Brenman’s talk about the future of work is a very inspir­ing and great pre­sen­ta­tion (he works at a pre­sen­ta­tion con­sult­ing firm) that might come off as a lit­tle bit off topic here, but sub­stan­tially most of the chang­ing cir­cum­stances of our work­ing lives men­tioned in his talk are due to the peo­ple grow­ing up with games. I am [...]

As a nat­ural follow-up to yesterday’s slide deck, we have Mary and Douglas Kiang’s pre­sen­ta­tion on dig­i­tal games for the body, mind and soul today. Their talk out­lines 21^st Century skills expected from this gen­er­a­tion, such as cre­ativ­ity, inno­va­tion, problem-solving, com­mu­ni­ca­tion, and col­lab­o­ra­tion. If that does not sound like the core activ­i­ties you do in your [...]