Gustavo Diaz observation on learning

This past weekend my friends decided that they wanted to start playing the video game Destiny again, so that they could complete the “King’s Fall Raid”. The “King’s Fall Raid” is one of the most frustrating and time consuming challenges I’ve ever faced in a video game. The challenge lies in the fact that you need six people to complete the raid and each one those people most be able to follow instructions and be quick learners/thinkers because they are all equally important. As one of the only people to have completed the raid before i had to teach 5 other clueless people how to get through each section of this long difficult raid. It took a lot of social learning for my group of friends to start being successful and progressing. I first explained what each one of them had to do in each part and then i showed each one of them by doing it myself. If one of my friends understood before the others i would tell them to help me demonstrate each step by imitating everything that i did. There was a lot of failing and questionable quick thinking decisions but i got to observe a group of people go from being clueless and not good to being knowledgeable and capable. Just to give you an idea, a group of 6 people that know what they’re doing can complete this raid in about 1 hour.Me and my friends took about 7 hours to complete this raid.

Who: Me and my group of friends

Where: My house, playing the game Destiny on Playstation 4

When: sunday, september 4th

One thought on “Gustavo Diaz observation on learning

  1. A nice example of social learning. I like that you did some documentation of the process of learning and provide a quantification, at the end, of how long it took.

    Good references.

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