What if School was a giant Game?
Let me explain. What if there was an App that a student could use to create a Avatar. That Avatar would have a amount of points. The points represent what grade you got on your last test. Every Subject would have a different amount of points depending on your test score. The points would act as a hp, and attack range. Students would be able to battle against other students, and maybe even people out of school. Another thing I would want to clarify is that a student could take a test at any time as long as the teacher agrees. I know what you're about to say. "Oh he got that from an anime" well yes I did the anime is Baka and Test but I think its a really good idea especially since it brings motivation to students who need it
If you want to suggest any ideas please feel free to, and if you think something could use some tweaking change it by all means.
Thanks for reading

I haven't seen Baka and Test, but are you talking about a video game where we would log in from home or something?

Not really
More like an App for Android and Apple products

>>3 well wouldn't it be really easy to cheat on tests and such? I mean, if I was taking a history test or something, I'd just google the answers on my computer, haha.

>>4
Well cheating has always been a problem this app or not its going to happen. Remember your points are the points you got on your quiz or test that happen at school. A good idea if the test were going yo be on the computer, the test becomes timed. Making it hard to cheat.

sounds like baka to test o0 nice idea anyway, i wonder what would happen school was like that in real life.

Maybe you should add any rewards for an amount of points achieved etc.

Thats a good idea. Another thing I was thinking about was adding a store where you can buy stuff for your avatar. The way you buy it is either money, or how many wins you have.

If it was for REAL school it shouldn't even be an app, and treated like any school related project.

Say a school centered around the above had classrooms full of computers, and each student would log in from class only. They would then use their class time inside of this game world, studying, and fighting. But it'd have to focus more on the actual studies, rather than the fighting and game play if anyone ever even hoped for it to replace traditional schooling/learning.

I see a few flaws, which I'll explain.

1) If the teacher is a major asshole or lazy, you won't be able to take a test. You're now at a disadvantage.
2) A lot of schools don't allow phones or electronic devices to be out. Even though that some schools are trying a new policy, which states that then can be out as long as they aren't disruptive to other classes and aren't out in a classroom, you still have the schools who straight up won't allow it.
3) I think that the degree of difficulty makes a difference. Some people take advanced classes to get ahead, and they are harder. Some people have to retake a class, and now it's insanely easy for them. Some people are just better at a subject than others. I think it needs a system to make it more fair, though I can't think of anything. I'll come up with a solution later.
4) Different teachers give out a different amount of tests. One teacher may only have two throughout the year while another may have one every week. Again, this isn't fair.
5) A student can pass all of their tests and still fail because of home work and quizzes. This needs to be incorporated in the system. (Then you have issue #4 arrive with these two new scoring systems.)

If you can make a way for it to be fair, I'll jump in and actually code it, though it'll take a while for me. I do have a life after all. You can still expect it in a few years. I think the idea is marvelous, but extremely flawed.

>>8
Yea I see what you mean. If this does become reality, it would be more based on actual studies. I don't know about the game world thing though, did you think they would enter into some actual virtual world. Its suppose to be a mobile App, that each student has that carries their own Avatar. I don't know about the computer thing either, again its a Mobile App for Smartphones.
>>9
Yes you are right there are many errors in this, but for every error there has to be at least one solution.

>>10 IF I had 2-3 possible solutions to each one, I'd think about it.

I have an idea, but my brain's too cluttered to type it out.

Thanks for the idea to watch the anime out is hilarious I am on the second season

>>10
The thing is you made me think if school WAS a game, which would focus on the generations of today more. Which could end up helping teach students. But I just don't think it should be totally available via phones, rather than specially designed computers connected to specially designed systems.

Imagine the idea like this.
On Final Fantasy 8 near the start (and during any time you can enter into Balamb Garden) you could access one specific class room and turn on a computer, and access special 'boards' so to speak. This is because it had it's own system and database in which it could use. A mini -internet- so to speak that other members of Balamb Garden could use to communicate with each other member.

Using the concept that they did on the game, and implementing a more 'game-like' and 'school like' atmosphere and allowing the communication from teacher to teacher, student to student and teacher to student, one could create a whole new way learning is used.

Now it being only accessible at school on school hours, would allow more people to actually focus when they are in school.

>>9 Okay, my idea to work out these problems. In some games you'll have different characters of different levels. The same could apply to here. The players will create different worlds depending on teacher. It'll be separated by country, state (if applies), city, school, class, then teacher. Each class taught by that teacher will be it's own little world, and like classes will be combined. For instance, let's use my information.

Country: USA
State: Maine
City: Rumford
School: Mountain Valley High School(I'll use my high school since I don't feel too inclined on telling you all where I go to college.)
Class: English
Teacher: Mr. Smith (I didn't have any memorable teachers, so I just made up a name.)

Let's say that Mr. Smith also taught advanced English. Since I chose regular English, I will be in a different class than all his English nerds.

It is up for the students to input different teachers, because that's too much work for a programmer and it could change every year. Let's say that Mr. Smith wasn't in the system yet, then it would be up to me, the gamer wanting to play, to click "Add Teacher" in order to create a new world.

There will be a forum where people can request changes, such as adding a school or city. People will also have the chance to notify the programming team, assuming that I won't do this alone, is a school has been destroyed.

Okay, this is getting too complex. I might have an "Add School" and "Add City" option as well. Then I'm afraid that people will just fuck around.

Any ideas of how to simplify this?

>>15 I'm also fully aware of the information I put up. Go ahead, stalk me now. See what happens.

>>14
>>15
I like all these ideas, another thing I want to focus on is how the GUI of the App would look like. How would your Avatar look like? Stuff like that
Keep posting ideas guys!

>>17
Actually it should focus more on upcoming generations. Example, how gaming grows each generation. Therefore if it was a custom, 3D world based on their school, it may make things a bit more unique.

>>18
Thinking ahead I like that

>>17 and >>18

Both of you are wrong. This should be more focused on actually figuring out the basics. Believe it or not, you can't do anything without figuring out the basics and woring your way up.

First question.
Is it a school, or is it a game that makes school more fun and competitive?

Each come with their own set of issues.

If it's going to be a real school, then we have to worry about teaching licenses, teachers, what grades and/or classes would be taught, what type of school, and etc.

If it's a game to make school more fun, then here are some of your issues >>9. A possible solution would be >>15, but that comes with it's own set of problems. For one, you need a huge support team. That's just to find out all the information that this idea requires.

Because of the people needed to be hired, you also have to find out a way to make money. I wish you luck on that.

Rolling with Tmore's idea in >>8 and >>14, if this was a real school, we can make this a private school. This would take care of our money problem, because it would take quite a bit of tech to create a system large enough to handle a school full of kids being on it at once. Everything can be done inside the system. This includes homework, quizzes, tests, and teaching. We'll have an actual building if the student wants to actually talk to the teacher, but I'm thinking that it'll be more of a private home school. It would be like taking online classes, except in a more fun environment. We still need a huge tech team, because this place going down would be terrible. There's still questions you want answered though. What classes will be taught here? Is it restricted to certain grades? Will it even be possible to get the teaching certificates needed to allow this to allow courses taught on here to be credible? How are we going to keep these kids from being completely anti-social, and make sure they can public in a public school later?

Let's just say, I'm making it really fun, but too complex. Anyone have any simpler ideas?

>>20
Well I think we should stick to it being a game for school. Getting this to become a actually school would be a little to extreme for now.

>>20
Actually we aren't wrong because what we're talking about, god forbid, is much different than the shit you're posting about.

lol well anyone got anymore ideas?

Thats a great idea!
baka and test was a good anime it got ppl motivated for school too! i wood love to do that i'd try to get 100s on all my tests if this was actually real, it'd juss B one big game which im good at

Thanks, I got a team working on the App as we speak. Right now we have decided to start working only Android platforms. If anyone has any ideas please don't hesitate to comment.

This thread seems dead...I would like to revive it because I personally think this would help.
If anyone has anymore ideas on the subject, or you see any flaws you think need fixing, please don't hesitate to ask.
My team has sorta failed. Well what do you expect from a bunch of teenagers. Anyway I was thinking on selling the idea to a company who could actually make it, of course I get 25% of the net profit, and $250 upfront. Those who are wondering what the company is http://www.offficial.com/fff/
I gain everything listed above if they accept the idea.
Also do you think I should sell the idea to the company or, do I save it, program it myself, and gain all the profit (If successful)

You said profit? so does this mean I'm going to have to pay for this, and if so how much?

dued you got this off the anime Baka and Test, but still i like it

dued you got this off the anime Baka and Test, but still i like it

Well looks like they had 2nd thoughts so they are deciding on to make it or not. We discused about $0.99 maybe even $1.99. And yes I did get it off baka and test but not everything :D

Bump :3

Never seen Baka And Test, but this idea sounds familiar with a few TED talks. This TED talk takes the idea of making real life, the whole world, a game. Going along with the idea of turning school in to a giant game, the speaker, Seth Priebatsch, even talks about school specifically. It's addressed at 7:40 into the video, though I suggest listening to the entire talk.

>>34
Thank you so much for this, I had the entire team watch this, and we have been getting alot of ideas. Again, thank you for sharing this!

bump