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Scott DeJong, PhD Candidate and Research Assistant, Communication Studies, Concordia University

UNBELIEVABLE: Video gaming can bolster classroom learning but not without teacher support | History Defined

Teachers need to be able to connect games used at school to curricula and students' lives. (Allison Shelley/EDUimages), CC BY-NC

One highlight of my Grade 3 life was dying from dysentery at the hands of a video game. I was ahead on schoolwork, and allowed to use the classroom computer to pioneer a family across America in the game The Oregon Trail.

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