1. Impact and Influence of Educators in Game Design

2. AnnMaria De Mars 7 Generation Games

3. Gifts for you #1 www.7generationgames.com/demo/ Download game demos now or later Run on Mac and Windows

4. SCHOOL IS THE ONE PLACE WHERE WE LABOR EACH ALONE So meet someone

5. Today’s agenda 1.Overview of educator roles in game design 2.Example of educator impact 3.Why it’s important 4.Game demos

6. Think What is an example of the WORST game design idea you can imagine? What is an example of GREAT teaching? Low-tech clickers -- Raise your hand when you hear it

7. … ISN’T ASKING FOR ADVICE, IT’S ASKING FOR THEIR CONSENT Asking educators for input after a game has been designed …

8. How it usually works

9. Video!

10. Best Teachers Do What? Direct instruction of English language Multiple modes of instruction (De Mars & Gill, 2007)

11. WHEN EDUCATORS ARE INVOLVED IN GAME DESIGN ? What does it look like …

12. An example

13. Step 1

14. Suggestions Bigger font Have numerator on top (Mathjax) Have a hint button

15. Step 2

16. Hint:

17. Suggestions Some of the hints should be videos Need to explain some of the English vocabulary and teach words in context

18. Done

19. Direct teaching of vocabulary wasn’t only requested by schools with large population of ELL students

20. Suggestions Have page after video that reinforces the take- away Allow students two tries at each question Give more points if question was answered correctly the first time

21. End Screen

22. FOR EVERY PROBLEM And we do this iteration …

23. Hundreds of problems

24. FOR EVERY EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE

26. It’s an iterative process Teacher Review Test in schools Software Design

27. RESULTS

28. Most games don’t design in QUALITY education

29. It’s not that educational games are designed by evil people But the process just described takes a LOT of time and a LOT of money

30. How We’re Different

31. How it’s possible Funded by Kickstarter

32. Gift #2 Teacher resources – Aligned with games – Aligned with standards http://www.7generationgames.com/resources/

33. How about you? Teacher input Student input Blog posts

34. Gift #3 In order of development stage sandbox.7generationgames.com/forgotten_trail / www.7generationgames.com/aztech/ summer.7generationgames.com