Educational+Game+Design

As witnessed in the PBS Video "New Learners of the Twenty First Century" children can learn a lot about technology, storytelling, and themselves by becoming fledgling game designers. By making their own video games using computer software, students learn complex thinking skills, artistic skills and media and technical skills and have fun at the same time. By creating their own software students are both learners and teachers, as video games involve a set of skills that the player must learn in order to reach the next level.

Some sites on educational game design:

http://schedule.sxsw.com/events/event_IAP8019

http://elianealhadeff.blogspot.com/2009/01/new-tool-for-educational-game-design.html

Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3Q4Rp3rWqI

Research Studies:

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=3&ved=0CEYQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fciteseerx.ist.psu.edu%2Fviewdoc%2Fdownload%3Fdoi%3D10.1.1.140.5271%26rep%3Drep1%26type%3Dpdf&rct=j&q=educational%20game%20design&ei=zK3aTZuMBYLL0AGXx838Aw&usg=AFQjCNExA7X1XWefEHL57HYX4XGQVjQ8Tw&cad=rja

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CDwQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Finnovateonline.info%2Fpdf%2Fvol3_issue2%2FResolving_Conflicts_in_Educational_Game_Design_Through_Playtesting.pdf&rct=j&q=educational%20game%20design&ei=zK3aTZuMBYLL0AGXx838Aw&usg=AFQjCNGWt7LTHfRaslY0jtHULxJEHcNm0w&cad=rja

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CDIQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eduquery.com%2Fjaet%2FJAET4-1_Dondlinger.pdf&rct=j&q=educational%20game%20design&ei=zK3aTZuMBYLL0AGXx838Aw&usg=AFQjCNE20nqY228qiaAKHhkRiphEp5SzGw&cad=rja

Colin Cassidy