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Age of Learning’s Latest Is a $100 Million Educational Game

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Along the way, in-game characters introduce quests and challenges to complete. With several thousand activities in the form of narrated text, videos and challenges, the company says that game currently has enough content to engage children for hundreds of hours.

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What If Your Co-Teacher is a Computer?

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The staff fully recognized the need to provide the students with a richer learning environment than simply watching videos that led to multiple choice quizzes and eventual unit tests. Alignment to academic standards is usually more prominent and obvious. Instead, the educator (through a projector, shared Zoom screen, etc.)

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Where in the World Is Planet3? An Educational Gaming CEO Seeks His Second Act

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A Most Difficult Game The struggles of Planet3 are not unique to the educational game industry. Among those who tried include Osman Rashid, the co-founder of Chegg and Kno, who launched Galxyz in 2014 to build a science video games for grades three to 12. Magnates from the gaming industry have attempted as well.