Can online games teach financial literacy?
Russell Hutchinson sits down with a bunch of teenagers to play a financial literacy board game to see who can make the most money (a learn about financial things).
Since it was designed for teenagers, I thought I had better find some to review it. Fortunately, I happen to have a teenager lying around the house, who is an expert in games of all types.
Recently one of our readers encouraged us to take a look at Hackt!cs, a game designed to teach financial literacy to young adults.
Providing appropriate incentives ($100) I got them to invite some...MORE»
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