Collaborative system for teaching design and critical thinking skills

A method of using a collaborative problem-solution board game, the method comprising:

• determining one or more problem cards of a plurality of problem cards, wherein the one or more problem cards comprise a representation of a problem to solve;
• distributing a plurality of technology cards among a plurality of players, wherein the one or more plurality of technology cards comprise a representation of a technology;
• distributing a plurality of art cards among the plurality players, wherein the one or more plurality of art carts comprise a representation of an art production technique;
• identifying one or more technology cards of the plurality of distributed technology cards to utilize in one or more proposals to solve the problem represented on the one or more problem cards;
• identifying one or more art cards of the plurality of distributed art cards to utilize in the one or more proposals;
• and
• determining a winning proposal of the one or more proposals.

A method of collaborative learning in a virtual environment, the method comprising:

• facilitating access of a plurality of users to a virtual environment;
• displaying interactive educational content associated with a problem or a technology;
• receiving a user interaction with the interactive educational content;
• updating the virtual environment in response to receiving the user interaction;
• displaying a virtual game associated with at least some of the educational content;
• receiving a user interaction associated with the virtual game;
• and
• facilitating user access to a separate area of the virtual environment to allow group discussion of aspects of the virtual game.