Engaging Students While Addressing Science Standards in a Multiplayer Online Game

The Education Arcade at the MIT is developing a Massively Multiplayer Online Game targeted at improving math and science understanding and engagement in high school students. In the game, players take on roles of scientists and mathematicians to explore and explain a virtual game world.  This presentation will focus on how the game was designed to align with the Next Generation science standards and will discuss feedback from teachers and students involved in initial field-testing of the game.