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What Can Minecraft Teach Us About Learning?

2025/5/2
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Charley Wu: 我研究发现人类的成功不仅取决于个体大脑的强大，更取决于我们从彼此身上进行社会和文化学习的能力。在Minecraft游戏中，我们设计了不同的情境，有的更利于个体学习，有的更利于社会学习。通过观察玩家的行为，我们发现最成功的玩家能够灵活地在个体学习和社会学习之间切换，根据环境的需求选择最有效的学习方式。这说明个体学习和社会学习是相互促进、相互影响的，并非相互排斥。 Natalia Velez: 这项研究的独特之处在于它使用了Minecraft游戏作为研究平台，这与传统的心理学实验环境大相径庭。Minecraft游戏环境更贴近现实生活中的社会互动，能够更真实地反映个体学习和社会学习的动态。在简单的实验环境中，人们通常只能选择个体学习或社会学习，而Minecraft游戏环境则允许玩家在两者之间灵活切换，从而揭示了在简单环境下难以观察到的社会学习动态。这项研究也强调了关注现代社会互动，特别是孩子们在视频游戏中进行社交和建立联系的重要性。 Emily Kwong: 这项研究结果表明，在Minecraft游戏中，最成功的玩家并非只依赖个体学习或社会学习，而是能够根据实际情况灵活地在这两种学习方式之间切换。这种适应性是成功的关键。 Juana Sars: 作为一名游戏玩家，我个人非常认同这项研究的结论。在游戏中，我经常会观察其他玩家的行为，学习他们的技巧，并结合自身的经验进行改进。这种个体学习和社会学习相结合的方式，能够帮助我更快地提升游戏水平。

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Minecraft is a movie and a very popular video game with iconic block graphics that characters can "mine" for building material and gems. It's also what cognitive scientist Charley Wu) and his team utilized to study how people learned as they played. Their unique study focused on both individual and social learning — and they found a clear answer to which players were most successful. (Hint: Get you a player who can do both.) Their results were published recently in the journal Nature Communications). *Want to hear more about new science research? Let us know by emailing [email protected]).Listen to every episode of Short Wave sponsor-free and support our work at NPR by signing up for Short Wave+ at plus.npr.org/shortwave).*Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices)NPR Privacy Policy)