# Brenda Brathwaite: Gaming for understanding

It's never easy to get across the magnitude of complex tragedies -- so when Brenda Brathwite's daughter came home from school asking about slavery, she did what she does for a living -- she designed a game. At TEDxPhoenix she describes the surprising effectiveness of this game, and others, in helping the player really understand the story.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2012
- Runtime: 9 min
- By: TED.com
- Genres: Education, History
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/BrendaBrathwaite_2011X)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-ND 3.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/BrendaBrathwaite_2011X?play=1)