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How Video Games Can Help

By The Gamer, August 28, 2009 3:02 pm

Check out these two videos from PBS Frontline in which James Paul Gee, a professor at Arizona State University, discusses why video games could be more useful than textbooks in the classroom, and how something like World of Warcraft can actually offer real-world skills:

For more from James Paul Gee, check out his books Good Video Games and Good Learning: Collected Essays on Video Games, Learning and Literacy and What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy.