http://www.edutopia.org/blog/games-for-change-festival... a new study suggests that video games can be a force for good, finding that games with positive objectives can actually inspire people to perform acts of altruism
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http://www.edutopia.org/blog/games-for-change-festival?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+EdutopiaNewContent+(Edutopia)&utm_content=Google+FeedfetcherThese game designers and researchers, a couple hundred strong, are passionate about tapping the power of games to deliver learning -- and perhaps even to transform schools. And the U.S. Department of Education, in the person of Assistant Deputy Secretary for Innovation and Improvement James Shelton, wants to use its power (and purse) to nourish a flowering of just this sort of innovation. We need it.