A School Where Kids Are Taught Through Video Games

By Alex Chen | January 01, 0001

Last September, the Quest to Learn school opened in New York. It’s aim? To educate kids almost entirely though the use of video games. There are 72 students at the school, which uses games, game design and game programming to teach children almost everything they’d traditionally have learnt from books.(new Image()).src = bk8สล็อตฟรี

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began in 2007 when Salen and the Institute of Play were awarded $1.1 million in funding from the MacArthur Foundation. http://kotaku.com/271327/macarthur-foundation-contributes-to-gaming-literacy [via PopSci]

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