CLAY -- In one Clay County classroom, learning has become a game. "Globaloria" is a pilot project where students develop game as part of the educational process.
"The hardest thing is to get teenagers, youth to learn how to learn and to fall in love with learning, and to enjoy learning," says Dr. Idit Caperton, President and Founder of the Worldwide Workshop Foundation.
"My game is to point out the facts about teenage pregnancy," says Tiffany Thorne, a junior at Clay County High School.
From social issues to math and science, students develop game topics based on their area of interest. One game dealt with the issue of bullies with the hope of changing behavior.
"I myself used to be a bully, but I picked up and found out that being in detention hall wasn't good," says Andrew Coad, a senior at Clay County High School.
The intent of "Globaloria" is to shake things up in education, because developers say traditional methods of teaching are not working.
"We have kids in a program designed in one direction, I think it takes creativity away from kids. This kind of program brings that out.
Several school hours were spent creating the games. The hope is students learned something while having fun along the way.
Seven schools in West Virginia offered Globaloria this year. That number will grow to fourteen next fall.