What Is Meta?

Teamwork is not taught explicitly in school. But what would you even teach? How would you effectively train the ability to work in groups? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Grades are so arbitrary and based on such a weird system that kids get weird ideas about themselves and generally stop giving a crap about them. So how can we think about grades in order to start fixing the problem? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The common issues of worldbuilding and how Twilight, Bright, and Lord of the Rings do it. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Schools are set up stupidly. Games have a lot to teach schools. And a lot of attempts to do so or stupid. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Video games have a potent application in education. I collaborated to create an ecology game that combined a quarter's worth of material into a 9 week experience. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Do you ever wish someone had told you some advice that would have saved you years of regret? Well school doesn't want to foster that. I describe why the school system leaves out ahuge part of growing up. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

I gained the ability to make grown men cry at mere sight. I learned to breathe like a master. How can we teach kids to avoid this? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Strategy just isnt taught at all. And it probably never will in public schools. Here are places where you WOULD learn it though... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Knowing who you are is hard. And even after you figure some of it out, it's hard to express it. This system of elements could help. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Why do critics and audiences differ on opinion? Why do experts despise cheese? This episode doesnt really resolve anything but I rant my frustrations about it --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Got a huge bone to pick. And its about who gets to play and who doesnt. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Its worse than science. We're teaching only a part of math and its the worst part of it. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Science classes are nowhere near where they should be. Science is a content class but it should be a skills class. And most of us, having taken the class, are terrible at science. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

A fanfic for Superman and how he would he written to make me interested in reading. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

He is one of my least favorite super heroes. He is either a total moron or a monster. But I dont want him to be. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Super specific rant on meta. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Why do people just go with 'current meta'? It drives me up a wall thinking about how stupid people can get about this. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

I rant about why I'm ranting. See, now that's meta. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app