Harvard Law School professor Charles Nesson is setting up the Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society (GPSTS), which aims to create groups in universities and colleges which will use poker as an educational tool to help teach about various subjects, from basic life skills to war games at military colleges.
The GPSTS will be officially announced by Nesson on August 19 in Singapore during an international conference called State of Play. The organization's website will go live the same day.
Poker and its strategies, according to Nesson, can be used to benefit the world. The goal of the GPSTS is to offer strategic thinking workshops to schools, colleges and universities, using poker to teach strategic thinking.
"Poker is one of the best metaphors for teaching life skills across a variety of disciplines,” Said Charles Nesson in a press release. Poker theories and situations can "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.”
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