If you’re wondering why my eyes look so bloodshot and my voice is so hoarse, it’s because I just left Austin, TX and the annual South By Southwest Interactive Festival (SXSWi), one of the most exciting events on the digital media industry calendar. The conference was a five-day mashup of social media entrepreneurs, gamers, digital artists, podcasters, video bloggers and random folks eager to explore the bleeding edge of interactive technologies. And among all of this hubbub was an amazing forum that posited a provocative question: should video games replace classroom learning?
