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Can video games teach people to be more empathetic? Maybe.

Path Out is one of a growing number of video games designed to engender empathy in those who play them. "We are now starting to realize the power that games can have at evoking certain competencies such as empathy and compassion," said Matthew Farber, a professor of educational technology at the University of Northern Colorado and author of "Gaming SEL: Games as Transformational to Social and Emotional Learning."

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Main Difference Between Gaming Development and Gaming Design

What Is Game Development? In essence, game development is the process of bringing the idea of a video game to life, which requires software programming, engineering, sound effects, coding, testing, rendering, and some other aspects to be accomplished in order to get the game to a level where it can work without a problem.

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Video games act as catalysts to boost kids' learning abilities

From my standpoint as a video game designer and scholar who specializes in game-based learning, I don't see a need to limit video game play among students during the school week. Scholars such as James Paul Gee, a longtime literacy professor, have repeatedly shown that video games can be used to facilitate learning in the K-12 classroom.

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Can video games improve kids’ money skills?

Mark Mazzu, a former banker and stockbroker who teaches at the online educational platform Outschool, uses Minecraft, another popular video game, to help kids learn about economics. Financial literacy experts also say that whether kids really pick up money lessons through video games depends largely on how parents talk with them about their online experience.

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Want To Learn More? Take A Break And Play An Action Game

A recent study has added to the body of research suggesting that action games could actually help your learning ability. For humans, it'd be of great interest to know if action games could provide a shortcut to this ability. Previously, studies had identified players who preferred to play action games in their spare time as having increased levels of these learning skills.

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When Playing Video Games Becomes a History Lesson

Rew Denning, an associate professor, notes that the increasing sophistication of history-based titles and the growing number of scholars who grew up on video games are softening higher education's distrust of the activity; a University of Tennessee course centers on the "Red Dead Redemption" series, wherein players explore turn-of-the-century America.

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This Teenager Is Developing a Video Game That Assesses Your Mental Health

Alqahtani's ambitious proposal-inspired, in part, by personal experience with the stressors of the pandemic-won her a behavioral science award in this year's Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair, an annual competition for ninth through twelfth graders administered by the Society for Science in Washington, D.C. Her prototype aims to address the problems of stigma and inaccessibility that, psychologists say, present substantial roadblocks to teens getting mental health care.

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New Video Game Confronts Slavery’s Legacy Through a Historical Mystery

Founded by James Coltrain, a historian and expert on game design at the University of Connecticut, Historiated Games describes itself as a "Historian founded studio making story-driven games." As E.L. Meszaros reports for CBR, the company's first game, "Blackhaven," immerses players in the realistic-albeit fictional-landscape of Blackhaven Hall Historical Society, a ruined colonial estate restored as a museum.

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Professor Believes a New Video Game Rating System Could Help Parents and Kids

As the father of four children, two of whom are gamers, University of Virginia psychology professor Daniel Willingham recently found himself wondering about the educational value of video games. Willingham was struck by the fact there is a rating system to help parents keep their kids away from content that isn't age-appropriate, but nothing to lead them toward games that could actually teach something.

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