GOOD VIDEO GAMES + GOOD LEARNING

Video Games have the ability to enhance literacy, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills.

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PROBLEM SOLVING

• Problems in gaming are well orderded
• Strategic skills
• Cognitive thinking

CRITICAL THINKING

• Gaming requires strategic thinking
• Games act like the human mind
• Gamers see the world in different ways
• Distributes intelligence

WHAT ARE THE DIGITAL AND

POVERTY

• Increases literacy gaps
• Stricken areas have little access to technology
• There are not equal resources

EDUCATIONAL VIDEO GAMES

• Are not engaging
• Offer too much scaffolding
• Are not adaptive

GOOD VIDEO GAMES

• Offer new experiences to close gaps
• A new way to view the world
• Create collaboration opportunities
• Can transcend poverty lines
• Keep students engaged

How can gaming and literacy increase student engagement?

MOTIVATION

• Gaming encourages perservance in problem solving
• Gaming uses a zone of proximal development to keep students intrest
• Gaming offers incentives

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