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• Gaming Tools Kids Want to Use

  by Alexander Repenning, David Gerding, Tamara Hudgins, Virginia Mcarthur and Ward Tisdale

  Limited choices exist when kids seek to author, not just play, their own video games. If video games are on track to topple film as the last big media mammoth, how can we build a video game workforce that we need? Instead of reinforcing the divide between artists and programmers, can we get more kids interested in learning the complex work that game development involves, and foster a really great game development community? What kids like to use for game development may surprise you. Come hear what they like, why the like it, and how new tools need to be built to meet the demands of future game developers. Join a conversation about authorship, identity, creativity, and the tools kids really use for developing serious and social games. Gain insight on elements of game tools that kids would use--if they existed!

  • Children
  • Community
  • Gaming
  • Identity

  At 9:30am to 10:30am, Tuesday 13th March

  In Classroom 203, AT&T Conference Center

  Coverage slide deck

• How Simulations Can Change the Future of Learning

  by Bjorn Billhardt

  Humans learn by doing. We master how to ride a bike not by watching a PowerPoint presentation but by trying it out and falling down. Yet, in school, most of our time is spent listening and memorizing facts. But the world is changing. As computer games become more social and computers become more prevalent in the classroom, the opportunity for true interactive multi-player learning through games and simulations is finally becoming tangible.

  This interactive presentation will focus on how simulations can change the way we learn. Using examples from corporate training and the K-12 space, it will explore how simulations can teach children and adults in ways that increase engagement and retention of knowledge.

  The presentation will include examples of both successful and unsuccessful simulations and chart a path of how simulations can revolutionize education by allowing learners – both young and old – to internalize knowledge through the process of learn-by-doing.

  • Education
  • Simulation

  At 11:00am to 12:00pm, Tuesday 13th March

  In Classroom 203, AT&T Conference Center

  Coverage slide deck audio clip