--- title: Five Best: Gaming Makes People Better Learners description: Gaming makes people better learners, Mass shootings are an American problem with an American solution and more. canonical: https://time.com/4966918/gaming-makes-people-better-learners/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-10-03T16:00:37.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:26.317Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Gaming Makes People Better Learners og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4966918/gaming-makes-people-better-learners/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Gaming Makes People Better Learners twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Gaming Makes People Better Learners by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Oct 3, 2017 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Oct 3, 2017 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Gaming makes people better learners.**](http://news.rub.de/english/press-releases/2017-09-29-neuroscience-gamers-have-advantage-learning) By Judith Merkelt-Jedamzik at _Ruhr-Universität Bochum_ **2\.** [**Mass shootings are an American problem. There’s an American solution.**](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mass-shootings-are-an-american-problem-theres-an-american-solution/2017/10/02/ac934588-a7ac-11e7-850e-2bdd1236be5d%5Fstory.html?utm%5Fterm=.a31260192276) By Senator Chris Murphy in the _Washington Post_ **3\.** [**Does even Mark Zuckerberg know how powerful Facebook is?**](http://nymag.com/selectall/2017/10/does-even-mark-zuckerberg-know-what-facebook-is.html) By Max Read in _New York Magazine_ **4\.** [**What’s wrong with Breast Cancer Awareness Month?**](http://theweek.com/articles/672845/time-rid-breast-cancer-awareness-month) By Meredith C. Carroll in the _Week_ **5\.** [**There’s a way to jumpstart Puerto Rico’s recovery: forgive its debt.**](https://www.buzzfeed.com/markweisbrot/if-you-want-puerto-rico-to-recover-wipe-away-its-debt?utm%5Fterm=.joZ46NBp5#.jxDzbNEWY) By Mark Weisbrot at _Buzzfeed_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4966918/gaming-makes-people-better-learners/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4966918/gaming-makes-people-better-learners/"},"headline":"Gaming Makes People Better Learners","datePublished":"2017-10-03T16:00:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:26.317Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4966918/gaming-makes-people-better-learners/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Innovation","Video Games","Breast Cancer","mass shootings","facebook","Puerto Rico"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4966918/gaming-makes-people-better-learners/","name":"Gaming Makes People Better Learners"}}]}] ```