ICT Support: Gaming helps students hone 21st-century skills.

Gaming helps students hone 21st-century skills. Laura Devaney. eSchool News. Online April 2008. Environments such as Second Life can both stimulate and educate, experts say. …Online gaming can help students develop many of the skills they'll be required to use upon leaving school, such as critical thinking, problem solving, and creativity… Studies of the brain have pointed to data suggesting that repeated exposure to video games reinforces the ability to create mental maps, inductive discovery such as formulating hypotheses, and the ability to focus on several things at once and respond faster to unexpected stimuli. …