In recent years, a certain "XX Honor" mobile game has been particularly popular. Children as young as 6 or 7 years old, and those who are 60 or 70 years old are addicted to playing and cannot stop at all. My nephew is in the third grade this year. Every day after school, he finished his homework with "three downs and five downs and two downs", and he clamored to ask his mother to give him his phone to play with.
Sometimes mother is not allowed to play, so he secretly goes to find grandma. Let grandma blink and turn her head to turn on the ultra-long battery life mode. It’s true that my nephew is young and has a high talent when playing games. My husband is also a game fan. After playing a few games with my nephew, he praised him for “Game seedlings, it’s not an exaggeration to play professional games at this level.”
Children are naturally happy to play games, but parents complain that when they play games, they have no idea how hot, cold, hunger and full. If you don't control it, he can play for a day without feeling the class. Sometimes I get angry when I lose, and my temper gets bigger and bigger, and I am completely unwilling to learn. Before school started last year, my nephew came to my house to play for a month. My nephew was fascinated by the game and I immediately understood the parents' panic about this game.
I also have a son, and I am afraid that my future children will be the same as my nephew, so I proposed "I will teach me how to play games, and I will fight with you." "How can you get a tiger's son if you don't enter the tiger's den?" After really playing this game, I realized that the temptation is really too great and it is completely impossible to refuse.
During the year I played games with my nephew, I never thought that I could sink into it. It would be uncomfortable if I didn’t play games for a while; fortunately, I walked out after that time. After a series of analysis, trial and reflection, I successfully attracted my nephew's fascination with the game to study. Although the game is still played, my grades have steadily increased and I will also study hard while playing.
How do I do it? Let’s share this experience today. Teach you how to use gamified thinking to help your children learn to be "addiction".
I hope your children will not be addicted to games. First of all, you have to know why games are so attractive to children?
With the development of the Internet, parents have always been panicking about games, but it has become even more intense in recent years. Anti-addiction is the struggle between two generations. On one side is the child attracted by the game, and on the other side is the parents who are trying to pull the child back from the game. What's fascinating about the game?
I have a classmate working in a game company, and he is also one of the most popular game designers at present. He told me a core secret about the game: Anything that can fascinate, immerse you, and be willing to spend a lot of time, energy and money on it, which shows that the designer of this game has studied human nature thoroughly. So it has several characteristics that suit people's psychological needs very well:
Points Level System:
Anyone who has played the game knows that basically all games will have a Points Level System; for example, if you kill monsters, you will have experience values, and killing a few more levels will increase. In the characteristics of human nature, if you are favored by this "continuously gaining", you will be unable to stop playing. Just like in "XX Glory", the higher the level, the more experience, the more playable heroes, the better the runes, and the more winning rate in battle.
Task disassembly:
The reason why the game makes people spend time step by step and every day is that its tasks are not achieved overnight, but always start with small tasks and small difficulties. Basically, as long as you play, you can immediately achieve success and advanced sense of accomplishment.
Desire for victory and loss:
When you are defeated by the other party because of a mistake or poor equipment, your desire for victory and loss will be immediately mobilized and will give you a great sense of excitement. It makes you want to practice harder or recharge money to buy better equipment to defeat the other party. This feeling is like "In the martial arts world, you can win the leader of the martial arts world with your martial arts skills and be respected and respected by others." And the reason why the game is cute is that it doesn’t matter if you lose, you can start over.
game timely feedback effect: the feedback of game will be more timely than the feedback in reality. Whether it is sound effects, equipment acquisition, etc., it has been specially designed. The purpose is to stimulate players to obtain dopamine through timely and dazzling feedback effects.
Borrowing gamified thinking, how can children change from being addicted to games to falling in love with learning?
Nowadays children like to play, and in the past they actually like to play, but nowadays children need to face more temptations, so they are more likely to be addicted to it. The advent of the Internet era has made it impossible for children to eliminate the influence of games. Since this is the case, we can borrow gamified thinking to make children fall in love with learning independently.
Use the points system thinking: let fiercely replace punishment
play the game, you will get points if you win, and you will get points if you play for a long time, but you will never lose points. We can use this feature to educate children. Imitate the thinking of the bonus point system, add a few points if you finish your homework on time today, add a few points if you preview your homework in advance today, add a few points if you help with housework. Use the bonus point system to affirm your child's growth, let fiercely replace punishment, and can further arouse your child's motivation to do better and better.
Task disassembly: Get a sense of accomplishment in small tasks, complete big goals
Don’t set too big goals for your children from the beginning, such as unrealistic goals such as “you will get from the third to the bottom in the exam next month”. In the eyes of children, such goals are not like expectations, but more like pressure and blows, but will greatly reduce children's desire to learn.
borrows game thinking, disassembles tasks, divides big goals into several small goals, and helps children make plans to achieve them one by one. is like passing the level and fighting monsters. This math test only has 50 points, 60 points in Chinese test, and 60 points in English test. We will strive to achieve 60 points in mathematics next month. It should not be too difficult at the beginning. Step by step, improve your child's self-confidence and enter the next level.
Desire for victory and loss: breaking the perfectionism complex of children
The game keeps "trial and error capital" again, and if you lose this game, you will come back. But it is difficult in life. Once you fail, it is difficult to convince yourself to stand up again. After many failures, you are likely to give up on yourself. So we can tell children through game thinking: you are an ordinary person, and it is normal for failure and win or lose. Mom and dad have failed many times, and it doesn’t matter, just like a game. If you lose this game, just let’s have another game!
Timely feedback: Promote the internal driving force of children
I don’t know if you have noticed it. If you say to your child, “Brush your teeth quickly and prepare to go to bed”, most children either stumble or pretend not to hear it;
But if you say to him, “Brush your teeth quickly, we can watch cartoons in bed for ten minutes later”, the child’s motivation will come immediately.
Timely feedback is very important for children. I have worked hard to get positive feedback immediately, so I will continue to do it. So we can help the child continue to work hard by giving him some timely feedback on . For example, if your child learns a lesson from the English APP today, he can receive ten minutes of free time for mobile phone play. Isn’t that a great way?
CiCi mother's message
In fact, playing things may not necessarily be disappointing. Games are not all addictive and inactive drugs. When the characteristics of the game are used in the right way, it is a happy productivity that conforms to human nature. Perhaps, this happy productivity can also make our study, life and work as exciting as games. Why not try it?
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