Packed with geography and history, yet exciting enough to keep teen and adult players engaged for hours, Civilization III was, in many ways, already an educational game before Kurt Squire, an
assistant professor of
education technology at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, decided to try it out on groups of eleven - to fifteen - year -
olds at an inner city Boston school.
The students «tend to be
older, they tend to be from more diverse backgrounds and they bring different life experiences to the classroom,» says Joseph Morgan, a UNLV
assistant professor of
education.
Common Ground High School — the nation's
oldest environmental charter high school, creating the next generation of successful college students and powerful community and environmental leaders — is seeking a Special
Education Teaching
Assistant (TA).