SimCity to teach SimMaths and SimScience at school Real Obama
will like it, but what will a SimBoss make of a SimCV? Hot on
the heels of news that a Swedish school has decided Minecraft is
a great way to teach its kids town planning, games giant
Electronic Arts (EA) has does the same by announcing SimCityEDU,
a version of the game that embeds the USA's Common Core
standards for school curricula in the game. EA’s clearly aware
of President Obama’s “Winning the Future” plan, because the game
is pitched as “a resource for classroom teachers who have a
strong interest in utilizing digital platforms as a learning
tool to drive student interest in science, technology,
engineering and mathematics”. Winning the Future has, among its
goals, recruiting and training 100,000 new teachers in those
four subjects. EA is collaborating with GlassLab on the
edutainment program. GlassLabs is a not-for-profit that resides
in EA’s Seattle offices and says one of its aims is to “… build
a body of credible evidence [that] … digital