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Baltimore Schools to Leverage More Game-Based Learning

By pete_gallagher

Baltimore County Public Schools (BCPS), in conjunction with Learning Port Strategies, is gearing up to roll out a new learning tool for students, one that will combine 'serious game technology with training.'

Dubbed Learning in a Virtual Environment (L.i.V.E.), the program will consist, at first, of two components: a 'repository' for virtual games created around science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) called the Virtual High School, and a challenge for students to create a pitch for a STEM-based videogame, which is entitled The Contest.

Two additional aspects of the program are planned as well—Gamification Boot Camp, in which teachers are instructed on gaming vocabulary and technology and how to implement it alongside traditional teaching strategies, and the LPS Loft, billed as 'a group of gaming professionals and tech-minded individuals who will join teachers in reviewing student story pitches and developing the first level of a game, based on the winning Contest pitches.'
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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on July 29, 2010 (boomark / email).