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Students were skipping my astrophysics class to play video games – so I turned the class itself into a video game

  • Written by Jane Charlton, Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Penn State
Students were skipping my astrophysics class to play video games – so I turned the class itself into a video gameA screenshot from the ‘University of Mars' video game shows a galaxy flight. Jane Charlton , CC BY

When I was a teenager in the early 1980s, I realized the potential of using video games in education. The same high school classmates who couldn’t pass a test at school could somehow remember what potion or scroll to use to tame dozens of...

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