Opinion

"Video games teach critical thinking, problem solving skills, and perseverance while building metacognitive skills. Game-based learning can provide systematic, data driven teaching in a way that forces creative problem solving rather than rote memorization. And video games can do that in a way that is replicable, scalable, and increasingly affordable enough that we can distribute it globally and equitably. (...) Games are not just about entertainment and distraction anymore. We need to approach them as a particular kind of persuasion - a particular kind of rhetoric. A particular way of looking at the world. A different way of thinking."

Jordan Shapiro, professor at Temple University's Intellectual Heritage Department. Expert on game-based education and digital learning.