Dr. Shaffer is a former teacher, curriculum developer, teacher-trainer and game designer. He has taught grades 4-12 in the United States and abroad, including two years working with the Asian Development Bank and U.S. Peace Corps in Nepal. Dr. Shaffer taught in the Technology and Education Program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education. He is also a game scientist at the Academic Advanced Distributed Learning Co-Laboratory. Dr. Shaffer studies how new technologies change the way people think and learn. Dr. Shaffer's most recent work is Games for Thought: a new and powerful way of looking at school, technology, and even thinking itself--a model of education for a high-tech, digital world of global competition. Dr. Shaffer has a M.S. and a Ph.D. from the Media Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.