Friday, October 28, 2011

New Mobile Game Turns Teachers Into Superheroes - Education - GOOD

New Mobile Game Turns Teachers Into Superheroes - Education - GOOD:

New Mobile Game Turns Teachers Into Superheroes

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Move over, Batman. Gotham City has a new set of superheroes in town: teachers fighting back against an "unforeseen evil." In "Teachers of New York City", a new mobile game from Philadelphia-based Gamemian Studios, educators don masks and capes to battle "school closings, educational programs being cut, and teachers across the United States being laid off due to massive budget deficits."

The game features three teachers—Hope, Victoria, and Teng—trying to save public schools that are labeled "closed". To complete the mission, the teachers must battle their way through debris-filled school hallways, the infamous "rubber rooms" (where teachers who had been removed from the classroom used to await district