A group in Oakland, Calif., is using virtual reality to teach kids about climate change, Mashable reports.
Mycelium Youth Network's "Gaming for Justice" program uses the popular tabletop game Dungeons & Dragons to help kids deal with issues like police brutality, deforestation, and pollution.
"It's a great way for them to learn about the climate and how it affects them personally," the program's executive director, Milagro Henriquez, tells Mashable.
"Gaming allows us to remove the barriers of the world as it is and imagine the world that we want it to be."
In Gaming for Justice, Henriquez's group leads kids through pre-written adventures like glaciers that melted millions of years ago.
"The players are making decisions that have weight and emphasis," Susan Haarman, an associate director for Loyola University's Center for Engaged Learning, Teaching, and Scholarship, tells Mashable.
"Then the game master will take those decisions and give them consequences, and the world will respond."
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