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In This Vision of Education鈥檚 Future, Games Hold the Key

By Joe Robertson, The Kansas City Star, Mo. (MCT) 鈥 February 08, 2012 1 min read
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Welcome to ChicagoQuest charter school.

It can be loud here.

And if you hope to embrace a vision of schooling that puts children in control of team projects immersed in the world of digital information, social networks and games, you鈥檇 better get used to it.

Here鈥檚 how it鈥檚 supposed to work: You start with new national Common Core Standards and plot out your students鈥 learning targets across the school鈥檚 grade span.

Then you take the imaginations of your teachers and team them twice weekly with your game designers鈥攂oth video games and board games鈥攁nd tech wizards.

Together they shape a body of lessons into an ambitious 鈥渜uest鈥 with a series of 鈥渕issions,鈥 says the school鈥檚 curriculum specialist, Patrick Hoover.

One of the recent missions combined math and writing on individual computers as sixth-graders created story lines in helping a fictional world, 鈥淒igiton,鈥 return to rationality in part by exterminating irrational numbers.

A version of this article appeared in the February 08, 2012 edition of Digital Directions as In This Vision of Education鈥檚 Future, Games Hold the Key

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