Crowdsourcing education with an innovative, "alternate reality game"

Ed Zed Omega is an alternate reality game (ARG) that addresses this monstrously macro issue through the stories of six Minneapolis high schoolers who’ve decided to drop out. Their guidance counselor challenges them to one last semester of self-directed study about education itself, and for the fall semester players of the game are following the teens’ struggles and sharing their own ideas about the vision and the reality of school through the characters’ blogs, social media accounts and more...