It will be built around helping teachers base lesson plans around the challenges facing modern cities and aims to help children develop leadership skills through urban planning, environmental management and socio-economic development. To build the title, EA has worked in conjunction with GlassLab, a design studio that focuses on learning through video games.Source: Bit TecH
...
'We want to up the ante of SimCity’s educational influence,' said EA Maxis general manager and senior vice-president Lucy Bradshaw. 'For decades, SimCity has been embraced by the educational community as an engaging videogame that also provides a powerful learning experience, teaching problem solving skills through imaginative civic gameplay,'
EA preps educational version of Sim City for schools
Posted on Monday, January 21 2013 @ 13:37 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck