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How Do You Get Kids to Learn? Make It Like a Video Game

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From pilot training to protein folding, gaming strategies are being used in education to make learning stick.

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Is it possible to make learning as addictive for kids as video games? The answer might be to make it less like school and more like Angry Birds. Watch this video from XPRIZE on how that principle is being applied across the spectrum of education, from training pilots in simulators to turning executives into professional protein folders.

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