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Welcome
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Atlantis (QA) is a learning and teaching project that uses
a 3D multi-user environment to immerse children, ages 9-12,
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strategies from online role-playing games, QA combines strategies
used in the commercial gaming environment with lessons from
educational research on learning and motivation. It allows
users to travel to virtual places to perform educational
activities (known as Quests), talk with other users and
mentors, and build virtual personae. A Quest is an engaging
curricular task designed to be entertaining yet educational.
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Each
Quest is connected to local academic standards and to our
team's commitments. Completing Quests requires that members
participate in real-world, socially and academically meaningful
activities, such as conducting environmental studies, researching
other cultures, calculating frequency distributions, analyzing
newspaper articles, interviewing community members, and
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QA
can be integrated into many settings, including classrooms,
after-school programs, public libraries, and museums.
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