project collaborators
Rosanna Garcia
Associate Professor of Marketing
Northeastern University
r.garcia@neu.eduAnn McDonald
Assistant Professor, Art + Design
Northeastern University
a.mcdonald@neu.eduSong Gao
Assistant Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Massachusetts AmherstKwong Chan
Assistant Professor
Department of Marketing
Isenberg School of Management
University of Massachusetts AmherstHEAT, Husky Energy Action Team
Northeastern University
news
NOxNoMore is a HASTAC MacArthur Foundation Digital Media Learning Lab People’s Choice Award Winner
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view HASTAC postNOxNoMore is a MacArthur HASTAC DML 2010 Learning Lab Designer winner.
view winnersThe Digital Media and Learning Competition, now in its third year, is an annual effort designed to find — and to inspire — the most novel uses of new media in support of learning. In May 2010, the Competition recognized 10 projects that employ games, mobile phone applications, virtual worlds, and social networks to create learning labs for the 21st Century — environments that help young people learn through exploration, interaction and sharing.
This year’s DML Competition was launched in collaboration with President Obama’s Educate to Innovate initiative, challenging applicants to create digital learning labs via games, mobile phone applications, virtual worlds and social networks that promote building and tinkering in new and innovative ways.
The winning entries are the start of how we can coordinate the reality that kids can learn anywhere, anytime today. Learning today doesn’t stop, if it ever did, at the classroom door, and digital tools and games can help us reimagine learning in an always-on world.
project summary
NOxNoMore is a web-based game that uses GPS data to teach kids about the environmental impact of their family’s transportation choices. The goal is to educate students of all ages about the simple, everyday actions they can take now to impact the environment tomorrow. After all, today’s kids will soon be making their own transportation choices and those choices will include tomorrow’s alternative fuel vehicles.