Grockit Launch

Posted on 10. Sep, 2008 by reg in Education, ShoutOuts, Using Technology

Back in July of last year I got my first whiff of Grockit, a MMOG for learning. Based on what I know of Farb and the team over there I was very impressed and excited to see it launch. Today, Grockit launched at TechCrunch50 and it’s a very cool looking application.

Basically a group of people get together around a question and discuss the right answer. One player can try to convince other players of right answers in attempt to reach a group consensus. It facilitates student-to-student learning which is a fantastic way to prepare for an exam.

Grockit hasn’t launched publicly but their presentation is embedded below. Kudos to the team over there for a great-looking product. I’m excited to see this evolve!

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  • Thanks for the write up! We're pretty excited to be able to show people more about what we're doing, and really excited about the response so far.

    Jason Kincaid from Techcrunch has a writeup with his thoughts, along with some transcripts from the panel of experts:

    http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/10/tc50-grock...
  • Alan
    This is a great idea. I've always loved the collaborative style of learning. This the type of learning I encourage in my classes. It's one thing for my students to give the right answer, but it is more interesting when they discuss how they got the answer.

    Take GrockIt and add the ability to build game characters based on knowledge and you could have a very interesting learning environment.
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