Interactive video lesson plan for: Jane McGonigal: Truths & Myths in Gaming

Video game designer Jane McGonigal argues that games are not a waste of time. In fact, she argues, "we need to look at what games are doing for gamers, the skills that we're developing, the relationships that we're forming, the heroic qualities that we get to practice every time we play, like resilience, like perseverance, and grit, and determination, like having epic ambitions and the ability to work with other players, sometimes thousands of other players at the same time."

Directed / Produced by
Jonathan Fowler and Elizabeth Rodd

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