A Five-Year-Old in Debt: Learning with Video Games

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Complete video : fora.tv Video games educational tools? Believe , game designer researcher Ian Bogost. Bogost recalls Nintendo' hit game Animal Crossing taught young son valuable lesson debt. ----- Video games viewed form escapism: pure entertainment shoot-em- fantasy. But increasingly, games recognized educational tools, deliverers social political messages. This evolving medium complex environments issues, providing platform people explore world situation interactive . In talk X Media Lab Sydney, video game theorist designer Ian Bogost overview video games benefit human existence. - Australian Broadcasting Corporation Dr. Ian Bogost video game designer, critic, researcher. He Assistant Professor Georgia Institute Technology Founding Partner Persuasive Games LLC. His research writing considers video games expressive medium, creative practice focuses games social political issues. Bogost author Unit Operations: An Approach Videogame Criticism (MIT Press 2006), listed "50 books game industry," Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power Videogames (MIT Press 2007), books writings. He popular speaker widely considered influential thinker doer <>...</>