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How literacy plugs into gaming

News Type: Event — Seeded on Sun Apr 6, 2008 12:12 AM EDT
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Imagine karaoke teaching literacy to teens who rarely open a book. Or the cues and symbols you'd know if you grew up with Mario, cellphones, iPods and the Wii.
Video games and literacy seem like opposite ends of the education spectrum, but a free conference today at Hamilton Public Library plugs them in together.

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