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How Games are Changing Education in Three Schools

By james_fudge

Kelowna.com looks at three successful educational programs that are changing the way teachers educate children in North America. LittleBigPlanet is proving to be a successful tool to let students tap into their creativity at the Quest to Learn school in New York City. Last year 6 - 12 graders used Sony's LittleBigPlanet to adapt one of Aesop's fables. Katie Salen, a game designer and the creator of the school's program, explained that the eight-week project touched on multiple subjects such as language arts, literature, math, physics, and computer science.

She pointed out that students really seemed to take to the program because it was "game-like." It doesn't take a Harvard professor to figure out that kids enjoy video games, but what may be surprising to some is that students are meeting state requirements for achievement because of programs like this one.

"We're looking at the notion of how to equip kids in the 21st century to be flexible, adaptive learners." Read More

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on September 20, 2010 (boomark / email).