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Grad student uses video games to teach

Ty Hollett at Studio NPL at the downtown Nashville Public Library. (John Russell/Ƶ)

Doctoral candidate has created a pilot program for a new “makerspace” called at the downtown Nashville Public Library. Hollett has been using the video game Minecraft to encourage teens to re-envision an East Nashville housing community. Studio NPL is part of a broader movement that is redefining the role of public libraries in civic life and upending traditional notions of what it means to be a literate citizen. , associate professor of teaching and learning, and , chair of teaching and learning, advised on the project.