This week's attempt at getting better at playing Shaun White's Snowboarding Road Trip has been interesting. I am now pretty good at navigating through a course. I am more comfortable on the Wii balance board, so my turns are a little smoother. However, I am having a very difficult time remembering how to do specific tricks. I also seem to have very little balance because when I try to go up on my toes or heels I feel like I am going to fall off the board. As a result, I am not yet able to perform certain tricks to score the big points. The other thing I still cannot do is follow the instructions of the person talking to me telling me what to do. She gives suggestions, but I can't seem to listen to her, process what she is saying, and react quickly enough to do what needs to be done. I also still have a difficult time looking at the snowboarder (my character) and the suggested foot placement (that is displayed at the top of the screen) at the same time. As a result, I do not do exactly what I should do, and I do not achieve a high score.
Overall, I'm still having fun, even though I still constantly crash into trees.
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Very interesting point about having to process multiple sources of information simultaneously. While we usually teach one thing at a time, at home in these game environments our students can and do understand multiple forms of information all at once, while still playing the game. There's been all this research on multitasking, which has definite drawbacks, but I wonder if we underestimate them when we only give them one thing to do and assume it will capture their attention. Perhaps there are other ways of working that will make use of their simultaneous ways of working?
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