Care to learn more about closing achievement gaps through games?

We’ve put together a proposal to speak at SXSWedu 2013, and we need your help. You may remember that we spoke on a Microsoft Education panel last year, focused on interactive gaming and student achievement. This year, our CEO Victoria Van Voorhis and Professor David Simkins of the School of Interactive Games and Media at RIT have proposed to present Closing Achievement Gaps Through Games. We will discuss…

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This week I had the honor of appearing as a panelist at the SXSWedu Conference in Austin, TX. Our topic was “Interactive Gaming and Student Achievement,” and I spoke alongside Steve Jacobs of RIT and Just Press Play, and Lisa Perez, Library Coordinator for Chicago Public Schools. Our discussion ran the gamut from using games to increase student engagement, to the transformative impact Chicago has seen with using…

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