“Games are architectures for engagement” I will say that I am a bit lost when it comes to teaching experience with games in education simply because I have yet to teach in my own classroom. Because of this I am going to base this blog post more about my life observations. In an article written by R.F. Mackay in 2013, a system of points, badges, rewards, and leaderboards in games can affect student’s motivation, interactions, and self-expression. They also discussed that games help people develop non-cognitive skills including patience and discipline. These traits related more to success further in life rather than IQ scores. I agree with what was written in this article. It does seem like when students are given a point system or get to compete with each other they perform better. They are given the chance to show they studied more or prepared more for given questions. Mackay spoke about the fact that students in todays technology saturated world play games in almost every ar