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Can Gaming Help Kids Learn? [INFOGRAPHIC]

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This infographic explores the use of gaming in classrooms, and how it can help boost students’ engagement and motivation. (Can Gaming Help Kids Learn?

 

Gaming is definitely a route worth exploring, not only for kids, but also for adults. Having a fledgling gamer at home who is on the high end of the autism spectrum, and knowing how he needs that dopamine surge to get his brain going, if there were games that weren’t “lame” that would allow him to learn what he needs to learn for school, then I think he’d retain more information. 

–techcommgeekmom

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Danielle M. Villegas is a technical communicator who currently employed at Cox Automotive, Inc., and freelances as her own technical communications consultancy, Dair Communications. She has worked at the International Refugee Committee, MetLife, Novo Nordisk, BASF North America, Merck, and Deloitte, with a background in content strategy, web content management, social media, project management, e-learning, and client services. Danielle is best known in the technical communications world for her blog, TechCommGeekMom.com, which has continued to flourish since it was launched during her graduate studies at NJIT in 2012. She has presented webinars and seminars for Adobe, the Society for Technical Communication (STC), the IEEE ProComm, TCUK (ISTC) and at Drexel University’s eLearning Conference. She has written articles for the STC Intercom, STC Notebook, the Content Rules blog, and The Content Wrangler as well. She was very active in the STC, as a former chapter president for the STC-Philadelphia Metro Chapter, serving and chairing on several STC Board committees, and most recently was the STC Board Vice-President before the organization closed.. You can learn more about Danielle on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/daniellemvillegas, on Twitter @techcommgeekmom, or through her blog. All content is the owner's opinions, and does not reflect those of her employers past or present.

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