ACS EdXN Event Series: Gaming for Resilience
Jane McGonigal, PhD is a world-renowned designer of alternate reality games that are designed to improve real lives and solve real problems. She believes game designers are on a humanitarian mission — and her #1 goal in life is to see a game developer win a Nobel Peace Prize.
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About this event
In this session, find out how playing games can increase your resilience during this time of uncertainty. You'll learn how to play a game that can increase your ability to anticipate hard-to-predict futures, so you're not blindsided by surprising events.
You'll get practical tips for which mobile games can protect you from the negative impacts of extreme stress and trauma. And you'll hear why the games you choose to play today can prepare you for a strange new future of work. Get ready to play your way to greater creativity, optimism, and strategic foresight - things we all need now more than ever.
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Speakers
She is the author of two New York Times bestselling books: Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World and SuperBetter: The Power of Living Gamefully.
You might know Jane from her TED talks on how games can make a better world and the game that can give you 10 extra years of life, which have more than 15 million views. She is also the inventor of SuperBetter, a game that has helped more than a million players recover from symptoms of depression, anxiety, chronic pain, and traumatic brain injury.
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