This morning's Today programme invited author Ian Rankin and Labour MP Barry Sheerman to discuss the literacy 'problem' amongst today's British young men.
How is this related to games, you might ask? Well, Rankin makes a bold statement about two minutes into the piece: that videogames require literacy skills, but these aren't recognised in the classroom.
While I support the notion of games in education, I do feel this is a bit optimistic. After all, the SAT literacy scores of English boys keep going down and the consumption of videogames keeps going up. Do you think that games have the potential to teach reading and writing to a generation?
