{"id":25130,"date":"2011-05-26T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T12:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/did-that-influence-your-approach-to-games\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T22:27:49","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T05:27:49","slug":"did-that-influence-your-approach-to-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/did-that-influence-your-approach-to-games\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-25130 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/did-that-influence-your-approach-to-games\/attachment\/25131\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_llnyj7bxVx1qbup7mo1_400-100x100.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><b>Did that influence your approach to games? Montessori education is about learning through play and experience and your games seem to echo that idea. <\/b><br \/>\nWW: Yes, I think it did, in a number of ways. It became more overt, more conscious to me later in life, as I got interested in Maria Montessori and her theories, and went back and started reading and studying the whole movement. You know, she represents one part of what&rsquo;s generally referred to as constructivist education. There were people before her like [Friedrich] Fr\u00f6bel, who was a German teacher who invented these things called Fr\u00f6bel Blocks. He invented the whole concept of the kindergarten. But he was approaching it with a very constructivist, &ldquo;Let&rsquo;s give toys that are creative to kids, and let them play and learn geometry and math.&rdquo; But even since then, there are people like Alan Kay or Seymour Papert, the people applying sort of constructivist approaches to education through technology. I think of my games kind of like that. Really I&rsquo;d much rather: (a) rather than educate somebody I&rsquo;d rather inspire or motivate them, get them interested in the subject, and (b) I think that self-directed learning is far more powerful than if you lead somebody on a leash. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/feature\/6386\/the_replay_interviews_will_wright.php?page=2\">Gamasutra &#8211; Features &#8211; The Replay Interviews: Will Wright<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did that influence your approach to games? Montessori education is about learning through play and experience and your games seem to echo that idea. WW: Yes, I think it did, in a number of ways. It became more overt, more conscious to me later in life, as I got interested in Maria Montessori and her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-6xk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25132,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25130\/revisions\/25132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}