A new game has been created by a Minnesota high school teacher called Fantasy Geopolitics. Think about if fantasy football was mixed in with a touch of Model United Nations. The game is changing the way high school students are able to interact with news.
Eric Nelson is a Social Studies teacher at North Lakes Academy Charter School in Forest Lake, Minnesota. He created the Fantasy Geopolitics game because the students were not engaging as much as he would like in class.
Nelson told Mashable that "When I started teaching, the average ninth grader looked like a zombie in class." The next day at school he proposed the idea to the class. It took some time to get the students engaged and interacting but the outcome was a success. The format of the game starts with a draft (choosing three countries) and then the players track the stories surrounding the countries in the news.
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