Education Nation: Gaming in Education

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Last May, NBC News kicked off Education Nation's On-the-Road tour, making stops in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia. In each city, we talked with parents, students, educators, civic and business leaders to find out what they're doing to help improve education.

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Gaming in Education

At the Education Nation Student and Teacher Town Halls, Professor Zoran Popovic and a team from The Center for Game Science (CGS) at the University of Washington, polled the audience about what elements they’d like to see in a new, interactive, educational game. The team took their input and in just 44 hours, created and launched a brand new game!

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The Center for Game Science (CGS) at the University of Washington aims to revolutionize the educational and scientific discovery process by engaging learners to become experts through personalized learning games that adapt to each person. Recently, CGS games have enabled game-developed experts to solve biochemical structures that baffled scientists for 13 years. Led by Professor Zoran Popovic, the Center is currently working on applying the same techniques to address key bottlenecks in K-12 math and science education.

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