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Video game therapy--a new frontier - CNET News.com

Video game therapy--a new frontier | CNET News.com

Let's hear it for videogames!

Videogames are enjoyable precisely because they offer a safe environment in which one learns. The learning may not be about the precise dates of battles of the Civil War, but it is arguably learning.

A book I often cite on the matter is called What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy by James Paul Gee. Gee is a linguist who started to play video games somewhere past his forties. He brings his knowledge of learning to games from an adult teaching perspective.

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