{"id":579308,"date":"2010-05-26T02:00:29","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T06:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ssireview.org\/articles\/entry\/game-changers_of_the_world_unite\/"},"modified":"2010-05-26T02:00:29","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T06:00:29","slug":"game-changers-of-the-world-unite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/579308","title":{"rendered":"Game-Changers of the World, Unite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As any comic book reader knows, the citizens of Gotham City have a handy way to call for help. Just power up the Bat-Signal and Batman will swoop to the rescue. It turns out that superheroesin- training are just as ready to answer the help call in communities around the world. A new online game called Evoke, promising \u201ca crash course in changing the world,\u201d had attracted more than 13,500 players from 130 countries soon after it launched in March. Their mission during the 10-week game: Learn about social innovation strategies to solve global crises\u2014 and then put their own good ideas into action close to home. Evoke is intended to leverage the enormous popularity of online gaming to engage a broader audience. The game grew out of conversations between African university leaders and the World Bank Institute, said Robert Hawkins, senior education specialist for the institute. Educators in Africa are eager \u201cto prepare their young people to think more creatively about solutions to issues in their own communities,\u201d Hawkins says. That\u2019s challenging in an educational system that \u201cemphasizes rote learning over innovative thinking.\u201d Enter Jane McGonigal, award-winning alternate reality game designer and director of game research at the Institute\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As any comic book reader knows, the citizens of Gotham City have a handy way to call for help. Just power up the Bat-Signal and Batman will swoop to the rescue. It turns out that superheroesin- training are just as ready to answer the help call in communities around the world. A new online game [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5913,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5913"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}