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		ANTSANTS on Aug 20, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fully Functional 1KB Hard Drive in Vanilla Minecra... There's zero educational value in designing and building digital circuits by hand? What?

shawn-butler on Aug 20, 2014 [–]

Not zero. Near zero.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overjustification_effect for a summary

And quit downvoting.

chandler5555 on Aug 20, 2014 | [–]

I think there's a difference between "gamification", i.e. doing tasks for currency, points or prizes, and "video gaming", i.e. creating a circuit so that your house door in Minecraft opens with a switch.

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