VIDEO: Gaming can make a better world - Jane McGonigal on Colbert and TED

[Ryan Goble]

More of a post for the gaming group but related to the Media & Tech crowd.

Caught this interview on Colbert:

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Jane McGonigal
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and it led me to Jane's TED talk:

Here's the link to her book...

[Laura Bradley]

Pretty forward thinking!  But will it teach them to write?

[Ryan Goble]

Well, it does sound like there are blogging components to some of this work. While I'm not a gamer, it sounds like there is a lot of possibility for this multimodal literacy!