ICYMI - What You Need To Know That Your Kid Is Actually Learning By Online Gaming

ICYMI - What You Need To Know That Your Kid Is Actually Learning By Online Gaming

Video game benefits rarely get the headline, but the numbers make the case before the conversation even starts. More than 61 percent of Canadians play. The average age of a gamer is 36. You are not watching a niche hobby. You are watching the majority of the country do something together that most people still treat as a problem to manage.

What does it feel like to build a friendship with someone you have never met, then travel across the border years later to finally shake their hand? Bernard Mafei did that through Super Smash Brothers. One of those online friends turned out to be a rocket scientist. Another path led to competing internationally, running a varsity e-sports program, and watching indigenous communities in Canada use Minecraft to build digital replicas of significant spaces. None of that looks like wasted time.

The toxicity is real and the parental responsibility is real. But so is everything being built inside those games that nobody thought to put on a resume.

Topics: video game benefits, social gaming Canada, e-sports career, gaming soft skills, Minecraft education

GUEST: Bernard Mafei | bernardmafei.com


Originally aired on 2026-03-10

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