“Every student showed significant improvement on their test scores. I have never, ever, ever seen my students so engaged.” This quote came from a teacher using the Black Rocket GRiD. The GRiD is an online platform for students to create video games about academic subjects designed for any grade, sub…
“Every student showed significant improvement on their test scores. I have never, ever, ever seen my students so engaged.” This quote came from a teacher using the Black Rocket GRiD. The GRiD is an online platform for students to create video games about academic subjects designed for any grade, subject, or ability level. Designed in modules with easy to customize templates, teachers can immediately use this powerful tool to engage students, increase test scores, and integrate 21st century practices. Within an hour teachers and students start creating games and will complete the entire process from initial academic concept to final game creation in a single unit of study. Games are then published to the community, where students can compete with their peers and reinforce academic content. Teachers will purchase the GRiD through recurring annual subscriptions and adopt game creation as a standard activity.
Teachers are struggling to engage their digital native students in core academic content as they prepare for upcoming national assessment tests. Adopting the most engaging medium of all time, video games, into the classroom is widely recognized as a solution with powerful potential. Bill Gates believes that game based learning is ‘the future of education’ and the Horizons Report estimates educational use of games will be widespread in three years. Current game creation software has been limited to fringe elective programs and not been widely adopted due to the lengthy training time involved and limited academic application. The GRiD’s approach guarantees fast implementation within existing lesson plans that will allow for universal adoption in all subjects.
Black Rocket enriched the lives of over 8,000 students in 2013 through almost 75 partners including a flagship relationship with the city of Baltimore. Generating over $1,000,000 in enrichment and education sales Black Rocket cloud based software can be found at the intersection of creativity and technology.
Designed by a teacher of the year from the number one rated High School in the U.S., Black Rocket doesn't just understand students, we understand teachers who are the key gateway to edu-tech companies like ours.
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