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Introduction to Game-Like Learning Half-Day Workshop Institute of Play 10/18/16

Target Audience: All teachers

This 3-hour workshop will provide an introduction to Institute of Play, background on Quest to Learn, and an overview of the games and learning field.  Participants will learn about the key components of the TeacherQuest program: The 7 Principles of Game-Like Learning, the Design Process, and Games as Systems. Participants will engage in playful design activities to understand how games are effective tools for engagement, and they will modify existing games to experience the design process.

 Participants will leave the workshops with a fundamental understanding of games and play can:

• increase participant engagement;
• allow participants to step into designer-roles, giving rise to greater agency;
• develop 21st century skills such as complex problem­ solving, empathy, collaboration, and creativity

 Participants will understand that:

• Game-like learning provokes immediate feedback, which is fundamental to a collaborative learning culture.

Participants will:

• Play and modify 1 or more games;
• Use feedback tools for collecting playtester feedback;
• Identify and use the phases of the game design process to modify a game (brainstorm, prototype, playtest, iterate).

Instructor :
Dates : 10/18/16
Days : Tues
From : 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Fee : $ 50.00
Course Number : E384

Class is unavailable at this time please call 973-720-2354 for more information or other course options

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