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Using games as an educational tool provides opportunities for deeper learning

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2013/march/games-education-tool-030113.html

Bringing games to bear in education is not a matter of dumbing down. Constance Steinkuehler, an associate professor of digital media at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and co-director of the Games+Learning+Society (GLS) center there, noted that "it turns out games are hard."