College As A Game

After hear­ing rave reviews, I final­ly blocked out some time to watch Carnegie Mel­lon’s Jesse Schell talk about Design Out­side the Box. It’s pur­port­ed­ly about video games, but it’s much broad­er than that. It’s about how tech­nol­o­gy changes us. It’s quite good.

If you’re a pro­fes­sor (or a stu­dent who enjoys feel­ing dis­sat­is­fied with your cur­rent plight), you should watch the bit from about 18:14 through about 19:50 (or start­ing at 19:00 if you’re super-impa­tient). You can see a crisp image of the grad­ing slide at http://www.slideshare.net/jesseschell/beyond-facebook (it’s slide num­ber 26).