GlassLab

• In Event: Innovations in Learning in the Digital Age

Abstract

GlassLab will demo SimCityEDU: Pollution Challenge!, a new game-based learning and assessment tool for middle school students covering the Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards. Designed in partnership with the assessment experts from ETS and Pearson, SimCityEDU: Pollution Challenge! not only teaches students about the factors affecting the environment in a modern city, but the game also provides formative assessment information about students’ ability to problem solve, explain the relationships in complex systems, and read informational texts and diagrams. As part of this demo, GlassLab will also share research documenting the multidisciplinary frameworks for research, design, and development of game-based assessments created by researchers at the Lab.
http://www.instituteofplay.org/work/projects/glasslab/

Author

• Erin Hoffman, Game Design Lead