Poker is a game of skill, a game of strategy; the GPSTS sees the spread of a still-open Internet and the proliferation of online gaming as a unique opportunity to bring poker specifically, and strategic gaming generally, to educate, challenge, and inspire. We see this potential for all residents of the Net, but especially for the yet-growing minds of young people.
We invite you to help us in this endeavor.
Education’s end is to nourish the brilliance in every child, the fantastic desire to learn that children start life with, and prepare them to engage with the joys and challenges of citizenship in an open society. Teaching strategic gaming is an integral part of this, and online poker can be a crucial element in this.
Imagine building an integrated media environment to feed the needs of a school — free, open, public, and multilingual — built on design principles expressing the best we know about designing games, combined with the best we know about teaching metaphors of games and the life skills they represent. The student begins with games of complete and certain information; as a game of incomplete and uncertain information, poker is well suited to serve as the capstone to strategic gaming skills.
We see five parts to this process:
- Online and face-to-face classrooms to enable students to learn and thrive;
- A curriculum to attract, hold, and lead students to higher education;
- A positive research plan;
- A positive business plan;
- A legal charter.
Please contribute your thoughts to our wiki page, and if possible, join us at the Berkman@10 conference for a workshop aiming to bring together the best and brightest minds to work at this challenging proposition.