I was fortunate enough to be able to attend the
TEDxPhoenix conference on 11 November 11. One of the most
surprising speeches came from a video game designer, Brenda
Brathwaites. I had expected the speech to be wonderful and
inspiring (it IS TEDx…), but it blew me away. Her talk
was not about overcoming obstacles as a female in a
typically male field, it was about overcoming obstacles in
our education system through games. She told a heartbreaking
story of how she taught her daughter the true significance
of the slave trade’s middle passage through –
you guessed it – a game. This sparked the first of a
six-part series of games designed to teach children the
moral implications behind the events that are taught so
scientifically in the classroom.
http://blogs.howstuffworks.com/2010/03/09/brenda-brathwaites-train-when-knowing-the-game-changes-the-game/
