Spotlight on Digital Media And Learning

1.11.10 | New software developed at MIT takes advantage of the GPS technology in mobile phones to inject new adventures into the traditional science lab. The technology creates learning games that can track players’ real world locations and send a stream of virtual information to them as they track environmental spills or solve science mysteries.

Teachers and students can also build their own games to share with others.

For more on MIT’s learning games that teach science and math, read Spotlight’s Think Like a Mathematician, Save the World from Monsters.