A Norwegian teacher is using Telltale's game to teach his students ethics

Jan 20, 2014 09:11 GMT  ·  By

Telltale Games' adventure game The Walking Dead is being used by a Norwegian teacher in order to discuss and teach morality.

The episodic adventure series The Walking Dead is famous for placing its players in tricky situations, faced with life-and-death decisions, ethical dilemmas and deeply emotional difficult decisions, and it is one of the selling points of the game and the main reason for its popularity and acclaim.

According to the report on NRK.no (a Norwegian publication), Nordahl Grieg high school instructor Tobias Staaby uses Telltale's adventure game in class, challenging his students to study and discuss the many ethical dilemmas interspersed in The Walking Dead episodes.

The above video is in Norwegian, but viewers have the option to translate the closed caption to English, as Kotaku advises.

The high school students get to play the game in class and then discuss and make group decisions that will help them navigate the post-apocalyptic world and, hopefully, learn more about life and ethics.