What Is Meta?: Recent Episodes

Donald Una

A gamer teacher rants about things that irks him... enrages him even.

This is his therapy.

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Teamwork is not taught explicitly in school. But what would you even teach? How would you effectively train the ability to work in groups?


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Grades are so arbitrary and based on such a weird system that kids get weird ideas about themselves and generally stop giving a crap about them. So how can we think about grades in order to start fixing the problem?


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The common issues of worldbuilding and how Twilight, Bright, and Lord of the Rings do it.


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Schools are set up stupidly. Games have a lot to teach schools. And a lot of attempts to do so or stupid.


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Video games have a potent application in education. I collaborated to create an ecology game that combined a quarter's worth of material into a 9 week experience.


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Do you ever wish someone had told you some advice that would have saved you years of regret? Well school doesn't want to foster that. I describe why the school system leaves out ahuge part of growing up.


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I gained the ability to make grown men cry at mere sight. I learned to breathe like a master. How can we teach kids to avoid this?


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Strategy just isnt taught at all. And it probably never will in public schools. Here are places where you WOULD learn it though...


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Knowing who you are is hard. And even after you figure some of it out, it's hard to express it. This system of elements could help.


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Why do critics and audiences differ on opinion? Why do experts despise cheese? This episode doesnt really resolve anything but I rant my frustrations about it


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Got a huge bone to pick. And its about who gets to play and who doesnt.


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Its worse than science. We're teaching only a part of math and its the worst part of it.


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Science classes are nowhere near where they should be. Science is a content class but it should be a skills class. And most of us, having taken the class, are terrible at science.


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A fanfic for Superman and how he would he written to make me interested in reading.


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He is one of my least favorite super heroes. He is either a total moron or a monster. But I dont want him to be.


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Super specific rant on meta.


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Why do people just go with 'current meta'? It drives me up a wall thinking about how stupid people can get about this.


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I rant about why I'm ranting. See, now that's meta.


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