Russell presented a few game-related blogs and websites at this week's Games Meeting.
Thanks to Digg, I stumbled across this article on a different game blog called Joystick Division.
"Five Things We Learned from Pokemon" - Aaron Matteson, March 15th, 2011.
Maybe any game can be educational?
Actually, if you follow the Pokemon franchise at all, it has a surprising amount of moral development built-in. It really pushes the ideas of personal responsibility, ethics, compassion, etc. Of course, you're also capturing wild creatures and then making them fight duels until they faint.
Mike Rowe and I wrote a paper about the now defunct Pokemon Learning League. It was a pretty good setup for teaching early elementary school topics, and they had some modules on learning about social interactions too.
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