Game Literacy: Games in Education - Should We Teach Game Basics? - Extra Credits

More and more children are encountering games at a young age, but it's still far from all of them, and a student who doesn't understand how to use a controller or the concept of XP won't get much out of educational game systems. So the question becomes, should we teach games literacy in schools in the same way we teach written literacy?
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