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HEADLINE: Harvard Law Profs Backing Poker
as Educational Tool in Schools, Universities
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Harvard Law School professor Charles Nesson will announce an international
effort to organize "poker strategic thinking societies"
at universities and secondary schools around the world that will
use poker as an educational tool to teach everything from basic
life skills to war games at military colleges.
Nesson will announce the formation of the Global Poker Strategic
Thinking Society (GPSTS) in Singapore on August 19 during an international
conference called State of Play. Chapters of the GPSTS will be
organized at prominent universities on several continents, starting
at Harvard.
GPSTS will offer poker
strategic thinking workshops to secondary schools and community
centers, particularly in underprivileged neighborhoods; sponsor
team poker matches between law, business and other graduate-level
programs; and conduct seminars and conferences that explore poker
as a means to teach strategic thinking and related public policy
issues.
"Poker is ONE of the best metaphors for teaching life skills
across a variety of disciplines," said Nesson, a founder
of Harvard's Berkman Center on Internet Law.
Part of the goal of the poker societies is to organize an NCAA-style
championship in the novel game of team poker
for American
universities.
Press and media representatives are invited to attend both the
lecture and workshop in Singapore at the State of Play conference.
Professor Nesson and colleagues will be available for interviews.
About GPSTS
Founded by Harvard Law Professor Charles Nesson, the Global Poker
Strategic Thinking Society views pokers as a game of skill that
can be used as a teaching tool at all levels of academia and in
secondary education. The concept is to use poker to teach basic
life skills, strategic thinking, geopolitical analysis, risk assessment,
and money management. The goal is to create an open online curriculum
centered on poker that will draw the brightest minds together,
both within and outside of the conventional university setting,
to promote open education and Internet democracy.
For more information, please write to globalpoker@gmail.com or
visit
http://www.gpsts.com, up and live August 19, 2007.
About State of Play V: Building the Global Metaverse.
This conference on virtual worlds will be held August 19-22,
2007 in Singapore. It is organized by Harvard Law School, Yale
Law School, New York Law School, Trinity University, and Nanyang
Technological University in Singapore. The conference invites
experts across disciplines to discuss the future of cyberspace
and the impact of these new immersive, social online environments
on education, law, politics and society. For more information
please go to http://www.nyls.edu/pages/2396.asp
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