Dr. Peggy Knudson Develops Unique Game Teaching Traffic Safety to Children

KRON4 in San Francisco reports on an innnovative game, developed by UCSF trauma surgeon, M. Margaret “Peggy” Knudson, MD, that teaches traffic safety to children.  SFGate, the sister-site of the San Francisco Chronicle, discusses the game in depth:

A group of third-graders waved their hands and screamed - "Stop!" - as a car slowly backed toward them from a garage.The children weren't in danger of becoming San Francisco's latest pedestrian casualties, though. They were one of many groups of students who gathered at Lakeshore Elementary in San Francisco to try out an innovative workshop that melds video gaming and real-world traffic safety lessons........"The ambitious, game-centered approach is far more effective than traditional methods of teaching traffic safety to children, said Dr. Peggy Knudson, the game's creator and a trauma surgeon at San Francisco General Hospital. "It's designed to teach them in a fun way," she said. "We wanted to demonstrate that what they learn in the game actually translates to behavior. We've done testing both before and after, and the data shows that it does...........