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Gaming and Critical Thought (Survey)

I’ve started writing a series of posts about gaming and critical thought in kids. When I think of gaming — as I’m sure do many others — I think of cracking open a cardboard box and extracting a board, dice, cards, tokens, bits, pieces, and often a crisp sheet of rules. But I don’t want to limit my definition to that. A handful of dice, a deck of cards, or a pencil and paper can be the basis for the simplest game. And it goes from there to anything increasingly more complex than that…

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Full text from January 24, 2008 by Brad
Filed as: Skeptical Mindsets

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