Games = Learning. Absolutely!
[bpfb_link url=’http://www.wired.com/2014/10/video-game-literacy/?mbid=social_twitter’ title=’How Videogames Like Minecraft Actually Help Kids Learn to Read | WIRED’ image=’http://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/minecraft-reading-ft.jpg’]Brecht Vandenbroucke Minecraft is the hot new videogame among teachers and parents. It’s considered genuinely educational: Like an infinite set of programmable Lego blocks, it’s a way to instill spatial reasoning, math, and logic—the skills beloved by science and technology educators. But from what I’ve seen, it also teaches something else: good old-fashioned reading and…[/bpfb_link]