Sessions at SXSW Interactive 2011 about Children in Hilton Garden Inn Austin Downtown

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Friday 11th March 2011

• Child's Play: Game Design As An Educational Gateway

  by Colleen Macklin, Idit Harel Caperton, Michael Angst and Nina Walia

  Society stands to gain a lot from our next generation of kids, who are not only consuming vast amounts of media, but highly engaged with creating media themselves. Research shows the top type of media kids aim to engage in online are games. If we empower them with the tools to make their own games, we give them the opportunity to build valuable technical, artistic, storytelling, media literacy, and complex systems thinking skills. This panel will explore actual classroom case studies and perspectives on the effects of teaching game design to young children.

  LEVEL: Intermediate

  • Children
  • Game Design

  At 3:30pm to 4:30pm, Friday 11th March

  In Sabine, Hilton Garden Inn Austin Downtown