First Person Learner

If Mavis Beacon can teach typing through a video game, can the Sierra Club teach us about global warming? Can the GOP teach us the joys of unfettered capitalism? Can Kaiser-Permanente teach us about the long-term value of eating right and getting significant exercise? There are some experts who believe we are entering the era of the advocacy game. NPR reports.

Questions...

•Can video games teach us things? What kinds of things?

•Tell me about how games put the player into the role of a character. How does the player see the world through the game character's eyes?

•Can video games get you to think about political, social or personal issues? What kinds of issues?

•What organizations and groups try to persuade people about things? Could this become a game?

•Are instructional games the successor to the instructional video? What sorts of things could be taught that way?