Ok I finally gave in... I played League of Legends, and I didn't hate it! My brother loves playing League of Legends. A lot of what he does all day is sit in his room and play it, which for some reason caused me to stir away from the game. The whole fantasy realm of these types of games has never really appealed to me, but when I started playing the first thing I said was "This is like Lord of the Rings...but cooler!" I started off playing the tutorial just to get an idea of what was going on. My brother also told me the gist of the game too so I felt pretty comfortable after playing for ten minutes. Then I decided to play a real game and saw that I was playing with other people online! I had a mild freak out and said, "I feel bad because all of these people on my team seem really into it." I died frequently and then I started paying attention to the magic spells at the bottom. I had two "go to" spells I started to use, and my brother would keep reminding me to level up when the golden addition signs popped onto the screen. Unfortunately I continued to die frequently, but I helped destroy the last glowing purple diamond in the last tower! I got so excited I continuously yelled, "I helped! We won and I helped destroy the purple thing!" I really liked how no matter how many times you die, you are never completely out of the game. I helped me learn about the game quicker and caused me not want to just stop playing because then I would let my team down. There was a lot of discover learning going on because it was my first time playing, especially when it came to the spells you can use. Social learning theory when I started playing with others online because I would fallow the other characters around, falling back or moving forward whenever they did. I really believe that the more I play and understand the game the more I will get out of it. From what I've seen while playing all of the games are mostly behaviorist, and Constructivist learning theories. Most of the learning that happens involves others, so there is a lot of communities of practice, social learning, and social development. League of Legends even has a chat bar on the side to talk strategy, or just communicating in general so the players can all help each other into victory.
Brain wars is my potty game of the week and I really enjoy it because you play against another person thats online, and it's not intimidating! Mostly because you will most likely never talk or see this person in your life, which makes the challenge less emotional. There are categories of games that you choose to play like concentration, speed, accuracy, ect. Each game is only about 20 seconds long and keeps your score at the top so you can see who is wining. At the end of the 3rd game the scores are tallied and the winner is shown. It's pretty cool because it shows you your strengths and weaknesses and you can continue to improve on your areas of weakness! This game helps you improve on memory, math, and quickness, which I think is more of a cognitive development learning approach. You have to really process and understand the directions of the activity, or else your score will be extremely low and you will be beat by your opponent.
Overall I will definitely be paying both of these games again and League of Legends definitely got me in the mood to watch Lord of the Rings again.
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