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More than a Game: Video Games and Digital Composi8on

Presented by Kevin Hodgson and Megan Bilodeau WMWP Best Prac8ces 2011

Ac8vity: Inspired by Riven

Connec8ons to New MassachuseHs Curriculum Common Core Standards: Write narra8ves t develop real or imagined experiences or events, using eec8ve technique, relevant descrip8ve details, and well-structured event sequences. -- Wri8ng Standards 6-12

Games are the most elevated form of inves8ga8on. Albert Einstein

By the age of twenty one, the average young American has spent somewhere between two and three thousand hours reading books and more than ten

thousand hours playing computer

and video games. Jane McGonigal, Reality is Broken

In just three weeks, gamers deciphered the structure of a key protein in the development of AIDS that has stumped scien8sts for years. According to a study published Sunday in the journal Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, the ndings could present a signicant breakthrough for AIDS and HIV research. PC Magazine

hHp://www.onlinecolleges.net/2011/08/25/how-video-games-are-changing-educa8on/

From Pew Research: hHp://pewresearch.org/pubs/953/

Game Design Elements

Created by middle school students at our Game Camp

But Gamica8on of Everything

Lets make sure our students are not just consumers of informa8on, but also producers of composi8ons across the realm of tradi8onal and digital wri8ng. Make them aware of how games are used for marke8ng and adver8sing.

Classroom Ac8vity: Hack a Game

Take the tradi8onal game of Monopoly How would you re-envision the game? What new rules would you invent?

Connec8ons to New MassachuseHs Curriculum Common Core Standards: : Wri8ng an expository text using precise language and domain-specic vocabulary to inform or explain about a topic. -- Wri8ng Standards 6-12

Gamestar Mechanic
Gamestar Mechanic was developed on the belief that when kids learn to design the games they play, they build technological, ar8s8c, cogni8ve, social and linguis8c skills necessary for a highly networked, digital, rapidly evolving 21st-century world. from Spotlight Media

Ac8vity: Create a Game

Come up with concept Sketch out storyboard Sign up for Gamestar Mechanic Start to build a game

hHp://gamestarmechanic.com/

Connec8ons to New MassachuseHs Curriculum Common Core Standards: : Use technology to produce and publish wri8ng as well as interact and collaborate with others. -- Wri8ng Standards 6-12

Reec8ons? Ques8ons? Feedback?

The Scholas8c Game Challenge

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