What Kelsey Piper thinks about video games

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Journalist writing on AI, effective altruism and global development; contributing writer at The Argument, previously a senior writer at Vox's Future Perfect.

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1. 19 May 2026

   Our readingGiving children a worksheet followed by the reward of playing video games would be more effective than using edutainment.

   Their wordsI think it would be a lot more effective to just give your kid an old-fashioned worksheet and then say "When you're done, you can play video games all evening." Then, they would pick whatever game they like most and probably both do more math and have more fun.

   ↗Homework shouldn’t be all fun and gamestheargumentmag.com 2nd of 3 in this piece