Emerging Technologies conference discusses educational advantages of gaming | Polygon
Panelists agreed that in order to teach children, you must engage them. A recent experiment by the One Laptop Per Child foundation delivered more than a dozen tablets to an isolated village in the Ethiopian highlands. Each tablet was filled with books, games and apps, and no instruction was given on how to use the technology. In a matter of months, the children had learned the alphabet and could sing the ABC song.
