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What Is Meta?
by Donald Una
A gamer teacher rants about things that irks him... enrages him even. This is his therapy.
Episodes
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There Is No "Learn" In Teamwork
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 Don't Mean Anything
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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Why Do All These Aliens Speak English?
The common issues of worldbuilding and how Twilight, Bright, and Lord of the Rings do it.
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Gamification of School
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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Leveling Up Skills With Video Games
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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Your Emotions Are Not Welcome
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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Cults Give You Superpowers
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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Battle Simulations (or How To Teach Sun Zi's Art of War)
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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Fire! Earth! Water! Air! HEED MY CALL!
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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Artsy and the Fartsy
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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One Size Don't Fit All
Got a huge bone to pick. And its about who gets to play and who doesnt.
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Math Isnt Taught Right
Its worse than science. We're teaching only a part of math and its the worst part of it.
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Science Isn't Taught Right
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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Superman Paradox p. 2
A fanfic for Superman and how he would he written to make me interested in reading.
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Superman Paradox
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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Actual meta
Super specific rant on meta.
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Current (stupid) meta
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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What is Meta?
I rant about why I'm ranting. See, now that's meta.
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A gamer teacher rants about things that irks him... enrages him even. This is his therapy.
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What Is Meta? is created and hosted by Donald Una.
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