Electronic Arts has announced that they are working with GlassLab on SimCityEDU. The serious game is an online educational community designed to help teachers as a learning tool.
SimCityEDU will help educators make and share digital SimCity-based lesson plans. More importantly, it will allow students to think critically about challenges that face modern cities.
“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,” said Lucy Bradshaw, Senior Vice President and General Manager of EA’s Maxis Label. “We want to up the ante of SimCity‘s educational influence. Through our partnership with GlassLab, SimCity will become the foundation of a program to re-imagine learning in a way that will inspire today’s youth to get excited about STEM education and become the problem solvers of tomorrow.”
