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Scientists Ask for Gaming Research Funding
Ars Technica reports on a request by the Federation of American Scientists to support videogaming in education through government grants. The request comes via a report stating that gaming promotes higher-level thinking, and may eventually give students an edge in the modern global workplace. From the article: "The panel determined that there are, in fact, skills learned by video games that are of value to today's employers, including 'strategic and analytical thinking, problem solving, planning and execution, decision-making, and adaptation to rapid change.' Additionally, they found that video games foster goal-setting, practice in patience, and even team building. Carefully noting that there is a difference between video games developed for entertainment versus education, the FAS's report says that an emphasis in learning in video games could greatly benefit future generations of workers."
Wargame - A simulation, by whatever means, of a military operation involving two or more opposing forces, using rules, data, and procedures designed to depict an actual or assumed real life situation." - Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory
"Piter, too, is dead."
If they had meant "skills learned by playing video games" they should have phrased it that way or by either phrasing it as "skills taught by playing video games" or "skills learned from video games" It is incorrect to use it as "skills learned by video games" except in the case that the video games are actually learning skills (or you happen to be Yoda, which judging by how the rest of the article is phrase, Jacqui Cheng is obviously not Yoda).
Obviously we are going into an area where normal grammar rules are not enough. Grammatically, the past tense verb "learned" can be modified by any noun (such as "games", which in this case is modified as well by the word "video" which, while normally a noun itself, is used as an adjective). You could just as easily say "skills learned by lawnmowers" and it would be grammatically correct, but it would still be intellectually wrong (except as noted above which would make for a very scary group of garden equipment)
Also of note is that learn and teach are unusual verbs in that you can be taught and you can learn, but as you may have learned, you cannot "be" learned (as a verb (affecting a living creature. Other nouns can be learned by living creatures). As a multi-syllable adjective, you can.)
* Please note that have taken the liberty of using comedic effect to both further the education of some, while providing a good laugh to others.