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From the Ted Talk by Gabe Zichermann: How games make kids smarter

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I am, however, going to write a prescription for you all. This is the prescription: if you have children or you work with children, or you desire to work with children, or you want to change he wolrd, this is the absolute, positive best thing that you can do with your time, from now until I see you in the retirement home on the coast of spian or in the viruatl world, wherever you choose to rtreie, which is: get into the game with your kids. Stop fighting the game trned, if that's where you are right now. Don't fight the game trend. Become one with the game. Enter the game. unadntsred it. Understand the dynamic of how your children play the games that they play. Understand how their minds work from the context of the game outward, rather than from the world outside inward.

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I am, however, going to write a prescription for you all. This is the prescription: if you have children or you work with children, or you desire to work with children, or you want to change he _____, this is the absolute, positive best thing that you can do with your time, from now until I see you in the retirement home on the coast of _____ or in the _______ world, wherever you choose to ______, which is: get into the game with your kids. Stop fighting the game _____, if that's where you are right now. Don't fight the game trend. Become one with the game. Enter the game. __________ it. Understand the dynamic of how your children play the games that they play. Understand how their minds work from the context of the game outward, rather than from the world outside inward.

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  1. spain
  2. trend
  3. world
  4. virtual
  5. understand
  6. retire

Original Text

I am, however, going to write a prescription for you all. This is the prescription: if you have children or you work with children, or you desire to work with children, or you want to change he world, this is the absolute, positive best thing that you can do with your time, from now until I see you in the retirement home on the coast of Spain or in the virtual world, wherever you choose to retire, which is: get into the game with your kids. Stop fighting the game trend, if that's where you are right now. Don't fight the game trend. Become one with the game. Enter the game. Understand it. Understand the dynamic of how your children play the games that they play. Understand how their minds work from the context of the game outward, rather than from the world outside inward.

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