{"id":7040,"date":"2023-03-03T12:55:38","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T16:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/?p=7040"},"modified":"2023-03-03T12:55:38","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T16:55:38","slug":"can-education-be-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/?p=7040","title":{"rendered":"Can Education Be Fun?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I mean, yeah. More than that, the reading made some really good points. I remember being in school and &#8216;playing&#8217; typing games in which the faster and more accurate you typed, the more points and goals you accomplished (not fun, but I can type without looking at my keyboard now). Had my teacher covered my computer keys, and given me a game in which I could type my own responses or manipulate the game in my own way instead of typing what was in front of me my typing education would have been more fun. I don&#8217;t think I would have ever thought to make a math game about being part of a rock band (but that&#8217;s why we come to college). I feel like using the authors 5 points will help me better develop some of my educational game goals, and help me think outside the box. No more chocolate covered broccoli. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mean, yeah. More than that, the reading made some really good points. I remember being in school and &#8216;playing&#8217; typing games in which the faster and more accurate you typed, the more points and goals you accomplished (not fun, but I can type without looking at my keyboard now). Had my teacher covered my &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/?p=7040\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Can Education Be Fun?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-design-studio-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7042,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7040\/revisions\/7042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}