I don't know about you, but I love encouraging kids to celebrate Starcraft 2 especially eSports.
I am a teacher of one-and-a-half to two year olds and I celebrate Starcraft 2 particularly by cheering "GG, Good Game" almost every day. The 11 kids I teach love cheering and will randomly yell "GG" throughout the day.
View a cute video of me and a couple of my students!
My husband and I also bought his 2 cousins in middle school Starcraft 2 because they showed interest during our video game annual get together. We now play with them almost daily in 3v3. We have them hooked on the Day[9] Daily as well.
As for me and my husband, we watch GSL, GSTL, and MLG as our daily dinner entertainment.
My question to you: What you are doing to encourage future Starcraft 2 gamers and spectators?
It's cool how you get them to say GG and it might be cool if you made them do ceremonies when they win at something or do something awesome. But let's get things straight, I'll help kids love the better game brood war
On April 28 2012 23:25 sc4k wrote: It's cool how you get them to say GG and it might be cool if you made them do ceremonies when they win at something or do something awesome. But let's get things straight, I'll help kids love the better game brood war
On April 28 2012 23:25 sc4k wrote: It's cool how you get them to say GG and it might be cool if you made them do ceremonies when they win at something or do something awesome. But let's get things straight, I'll help kids love the better game brood war
On April 28 2012 23:25 sc4k wrote: It's cool how you get them to say GG and it might be cool if you made them do ceremonies when they win at something or do something awesome. But let's get things straight, I'll help kids love the better game brood war
lol, the question in the end sounds like an accusation but, I actually do nothing to help kids love Starcraft 2, since i'm 22 single and I am the youngest by faaaar in all my family (I got around 20 cousins, the closest to me in age is 27, some of them could be my parents ahah). I'm just never in contact with kids or even teenagers, but that would be a great idea, I mean, myself as a teenager, would have loved, if someone introduced me to Starcraft 2 instead of Counter-Strike etc. I find the community to be mature, nice, you can learn a lot from playing Starcraft 2, I think it is way better for kids than Call of Duty and games like that. Plus it must be awesome having kids randomly yelling GG
On April 28 2012 23:25 sc4k wrote: It's cool how you get them to say GG and it might be cool if you made them do ceremonies when they win at something or do something awesome. But let's get things straight, I'll help kids love the better game brood war
Agreed, first game my kids are going to play is BW, and I'm also going to make them love the Lion King :D
im just gonna lock my kids in there room for 15 hours with water and SC 2 and whoever gets Grand masters first gets to go pro the other.....college lol
On April 28 2012 23:25 sc4k wrote: It's cool how you get them to say GG and it might be cool if you made them do ceremonies when they win at something or do something awesome. But let's get things straight, I'll help kids love the better game brood war
You do know sc2 is a newer starcraft right?
You do know BW is the better game, right?
You know that's subjective right?
Wow I can see this topic getting completely ruined already by BW vs SC2 flamewars... Please don't
On April 29 2012 00:11 mahO wrote: lol, the question in the end sounds like an accusation but, I actually do nothing to help kids love Starcraft 2, since i'm 22 single and I am the youngest by faaaar in all my family (I got around 20 cousins, the closest to me in age is 27, some of them could be my parents ahah). I'm just never in contact with kids or even teenagers, but that would be a great idea, I mean, myself as a teenager, would have loved, if someone introduced me to Starcraft 2 instead of Counter-Strike etc. I find the community to be mature, nice, you can learn a lot from playing Starcraft 2, I think it is way better for kids than Call of Duty and games like that. Plus it must be awesome having kids randomly yelling GG
I 'm just interested in neat ideas. Gotta spread the love.
The only thing I'm in favour of is finding out what my kids or other children like and supporting that, not pushing my personal agenda or interests on them.
If there's something I want to share with them that I think they might like, I might show them once or twice, and then see whether they like it or not. But your idea of yelling SC2 lingo every day as a way to influence your children to do or like something you enjoy seems unethical to me. Although I guess in the end its not a big deal as the kids probably don't understand why their mom yells out two letters all the time, apart from the fact that its apparently entertaining and weirdly fun.
So in principle your idea is something I take issue with, but in practise its ok .
Gonna wait until my kids are the right age, then get them to play every now and then starcraft 2 and Project M. My kids will be mechanically and strategically superior to all!!!
You shouldn't teach them to love SC2, you should teach them to love chess, cards, billiards, and other timeless games that they can enjoy long after sc2 is forgotten
I used to work for the city running after school programs for elementary school childeren back around 2002-2005. After the first year I set up a bunch of ancient computers from parts that were being thrown out and basically ran a class for ~3rd graders teaching them how to play starcraft broodwar. Very rewarding experience, many of those kids are adults now and I certainly hope many of them still play starcraft.
I've posted it before on TL, but here is one of my more prized peices of art work one of my students gifted to me. It was drawn shortly after an hour long lecture/rant I gave the childeren about impropper use of static defense, and how to break players that were employing this tactic (since at their skill level building 500+ photon cannons seemed to be the most effective strategy.)
I don't think I'm doing anything outward in the promotion of SC2 to kids, but I really think what you are doing for the kids you teach are awesome! Starcraft is a game of strategy, and could have a chance to further promote their educational development.
On April 28 2012 23:25 sc4k wrote: It's cool how you get them to say GG and it might be cool if you made them do ceremonies when they win at something or do something awesome. But let's get things straight, I'll help kids love the better game brood war
You do know sc2 is a newer starcraft right?
You do know BW is the better game, right?
WHAT I DO KNOW
is that I have concerns that discussion will lead us down an all too familiar path.
Edit: Oops sorry Haemonculus But I am teaching youngsters in my school system BW. It's more readily available, and runs on the old macs we have. They think it's really cute, esp. the commentators of Gom.tv(in Korean).
I plan on having my kids play on a mid 90s computer for a few years, eventually going through the progression of great video games of the era of my childhood. Ofc SC and other great franchises will be parts of the series. I have fond memories of watching my dad play computer games while I sat on his lap, hopefully I can create such memories for my kids too.
(Maybe it'll foster an appreciation of graphics in them by watching how gaming has evolved.) (I also want my kids to see the great movies I saw growing up...is it weird to want your kids to experience things I found meaningful?)
On April 29 2012 05:22 radscorpion9 wrote: But your idea of yelling SC2 lingo every day as a way to influence your children to do or like something you enjoy seems unethical to me.
So in principle your idea is something I take issue with, but in practise its ok .
The kids I work with have a limited vocabulary and limited attention span (1-5 minute activities). They are only just turning two so they can't express themselves in many ways yet. I use this cheer because they can imitate it well and practice letter sounds. We also cheer "touchdown," "yea," practice each letter sound repeatedly, we clap, and more. I believe in introducing things to kids to broaden their horizon. If my kids didn't like it they wouldn't do it. In addition, we have 9 hours a day to fill with just the teachers talking and singing. Hearing only "yea" as a cheer every 1-5 minutes gets a little boring and limits their perspective.
On April 29 2012 06:39 BlackJack wrote: You shouldn't teach them to love SC2, you should teach them to love chess, cards, billiards, and other timeless games that they can enjoy long after sc2 is forgotten
Why limit them? This is the age of technology and differentiation.
On April 29 2012 06:45 No_Roo wrote: I used to work for the city running after school programs for elementary school childeren back around 2002-2005. After the first year I set up a bunch of ancient computers from parts that were being thrown out and basically ran a class for ~3rd graders teaching them how to play starcraft broodwar. Very rewarding experience, many of those kids are adults now and I certainly hope many of them still play starcraft.
I've posted it before on TL, but here is one of my more prized peices of art work one of my students gifted to me. It was drawn shortly after an hour long lecture/rant I gave the childeren about impropper use of static defense, and how to break players that were employing this tactic (since at their skill level building 500+ photon cannons seemed to be the most effective strategy.)
I LOVE IT!! What a great way to help children learn how to reasses their problems to improve their practices.
On April 29 2012 07:40 Deleuze wrote: Aren't their safe guarding laws against publicizing images of children without parental consent? Is this the kind of thing a responsible teach does?
I would show them brood war instead. I personally still think starcraft 2 has some big fundamental problems that will clearly never get fixed, because blizzard is not going to make major changes.
My intent in this post is to share the love of gaming and the things we do to promote our passions, not to determine which game is better. As I have only played and watched SC2 out of the Starcraft games and this is not a website for every single other game, practice, idea that I plan on sharing I did not include them. Kids are who will shape the future with their perspectives on the world. I think positively. I hope there are others who do the same.
On April 29 2012 13:21 ShadowQueen wrote: I had posted it in the general forum for TL at first.
Jeez, thats what I had originally guessed. Suddenly it makes less sense again.
I stand by it being awesome though :D
Edit: Wow I just realized you're the lady responsible for the Mutalisk Valentines as well. So sick ^^
Thanks! I am currently sketching more T-Shirt Designs as well, especially for kids. I will be posting them in a few weeks when I have time to make them screen-print-ready/printer-ready.
On April 29 2012 13:32 NtsenG wrote: lol instead of trying to get the next generation to love sc2 we should focus on getting our generation to like it
whenever i browse these forums all i see is ppl complaining about balance and blizzard and whatnot
Yet they still play the game. Most people do like it, as evidenced by the huge support at live events. People just like to bitch about everything instead of playing the game
It'll make them interact with other people online under your guidance instead of getting chatted up while you're at work, help them understand that some people are assholes and not worth their time, make them do teamwork, and generally improve their memory, language skills, typing, and hand-to-eye coordination.
You can get the latter in RTS games of course, but the social aspect is horribly underdeveloped when compared to MMORPGs. Also I know children who like to skin animals, collect flowers, fish or tame cats in WoW, and there really isn't much fun and casual stuff you can do playing SC2 custom games. Though certainly some things do exist, but again, no social interaction there at all.
What the OP doesn't realize is that future generations will be playing SC3 and invading your SC2 threads telling you that it will be awesome when all the players switch, and that SC2 is dying. Or maybe that's what he hopes to prevent. (Won't work).
On April 29 2012 14:52 Brobe wrote: What the OP doesn't realize is that future generations will be playing SC3 and invading your SC2 threads telling you that it will be awesome when all the players switch, and that SC2 is dying. Or maybe that's what he hopes to prevent. (Won't work).
If a kid ever went to school and was like "guys lets play BW" and they showed it to them. Honestly they will be bullied. No doubt. Kids are ruthless nowadays.
Though on a serious note, young kids should not be playing the same games everyday. Need to mix it up and let them explore activites. Video games are incredibly physically passive and their brain should not be thinking about the next queen inject but why things in life are a certain way. Cant stress how bad screen based media is while growing up. And people need to understand that communication over the internet is completely different to real life.
ShadowQueen has the right idea by encouraging children to say "gg" and stuff. It helps change the general perception of video games and kids will grow older being nerds who can actually talk to people (not all nerds are like that, just some). Even getting kids excited about one tournament is a great way to get them excited about esports. So every MLG they can get all excited and tell there friends to come over and watch. If you start doing them all, every weekend will be gone.
Ive been doing a pretty big project on children and how screen based media influences their future. Honestly reccomend doing some reading on it. Change your perspective on how children should interact with technology.
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