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As your Block’hood grows, resources get more complex — and with 90+ blocks available for building, an infinitude of choices must be balanced with hood-ecology, taking into account living space, agriculture, commerce and manufacturing. By simulating the carbon and energy contributions of each part of a city, Block’hood supports a growing movement of “ecological urbanism;” the game hopes to encourage gamers to find solutions for climate change. 
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Systems thinking is an approach to analysis, focusing on how different parts of a system relate to each other, and how they change over time and within the context of larger systems. That’s lot of …
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“Education today too often focuses on what can be measured, rather than what young people need to know. CivilizationEDU is a perfect example of how games can be used to teach and assess key 21st century skills that are hard to measure on multiple-choice tests,” said Connie Yowell, CEO of Collective Shift and its global learning movement LRNG, which is merging with GlassLab. “We’re thrilled to offer CivilizationEDU as part of GlassLab’s collection of games for next generation learning. This beloved game is an important addition to the rich learning resources the LRNG ecosystem offers online, in classrooms, and through the communities that are participating in the LRNG Cities movement.”
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One teacher used a unique social deduction game to build a unit on the Salem Witch Trials that also taught students empathy and systems thinking.
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