When Educational Games Teach Nothing: Spotting Marketing Over Learning
The word educational on an app store listing is marketing until proven otherwise. Here is how to tell a game that teaches from one that only drills and distracts.
Learning
Where entertainment teaches something real, such as history in a map or math in a strategy layer, and where the educational claim is only marketing.
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