What Does 10,000 Hours of Game Play Teach? » Online Universities | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it
From www.onlineuniversities.com - September 18, 2012 9:17 PM

"In his book, 'Outliers: The Story of Success', Malcolm Gladwell hypothesizes that 10,000 hours of practice at something makes someone an expert, and if they can get those hours under their belt ahead of others..."

If this is true, many young children today will have reached the expert level when they are 11 or 12. One question to ask, what does game based learning teach us?

Think 21st Century skills. This post discusses the following skills and how game based learning helps to meet them.

* Critical Thinking

* Problem Solving

* Collaboration/Communication

* Digital Citizenship

* ICT Literacy (defined in the post)