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JUDY WOODRUFF (NewsHour): When it comes to school, keeping students engaged is a challenge virtually all teachers face at one time or another. Using technology as a tool is one of the new ways of doing it.
But one school in California is taking game play to an entirely different level.
The NewsHour’s April Brown has our latest report for American Graduate. It’s a public media initiative funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
APRIL BROWN (NewsHour): It’s not often you hear kids talk about school like this.
STUDENT: I really like school now. Like, I’m actually psyched to come.
STUDENT: It just makes me feel good.
STUDENT: I wake up every morning and I’m just like, yes.
APRIL BROWN: These students have been taking part in a new experiment in educational innovation known as the PlayMaker School. PlayMaker is, thus far, only for sixth graders who attend the private K-12 New Roads school in Santa Monica, California. You won’t find desks, seating charts or even a normal grading system in their classroom.
Lessons often end up looking like this one, which, believe it or not, is an introduction to physics.
Nolan Windham and his classmates are playing a video game called Aero, wearing homemade wings which use repurposed controllers from a Nintendo Wii.
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