Portal 2 is a dope puzzle game. I suggest you get part one and two if you haven’t and you are looking for a challenge. Well Portal is going from your console to your classroom. How and Why? Hit the jump for details.
Valve has launched a new education initiative called Teach with Portals.
The program is aimed at educators, granting access to Portal 2 and the Puzzle Maker addition for teachers to incorporate into their lesson plans, in subjects such as physics, maths, chemistry, engineering and even language arts.
As Valve describes it, Portal 2 provides “an environment with realistic physics – a playground rich with opportunities for educational fun”.
The Teach with Portals initiative runs through Steam for Schools, a free service which provides access to the Valve Education forum and its own version of the Steam Workshop where teachers can discuss lesson plans and share their created puzzles with educators around the world.
“We understand that learning is not fulfilled by a one-size-fits-all approach, so we’re engaging with a community of educators, parents and students to create infinite possibilities for learning,” Valve said.
“The educational version of our Puzzle Maker empowers students and educators to craft unique puzzles, explore worlds, and share custom lesson plans. Teachers can also simply leverage other contributors’ shared lessons, selecting among the best of them to suit their learners’ needs.”
Valve is first launching Teach with Portals as a beta this summer. Interested educators can sign up for the beta to experiment with the Puzzle Maker tools and begin to develop lesson plans around it for the autumn.
Watch the trailer for the Portal 2 Puzzle Maker below:
