Turn Up Engagement - Edugaming Workshop

Serious Results from Serious Games

Even though much research surrounds the positive impact of the use of educational games, they are not widely adopted in most curriculum due to the challenges of measuring their impact on student achievement in the classroom. The” Turn Up Engagement – Edugaming” workshop provides educators with a proven approach that engages students and results in measurable increases in student learning.

Who Should Attend:

• Classroom Teachers interested in transforming teaching through edugaming.
• Administrators interested in leading their staff to incorporate edugaming into the curriculum.
• Technology and Media Specialists interested in gaining edugaming implementation ideas.

Full Day Workshop Includes:

• Thorough overview of the supporting research for game based and virtual environment learning.
• Complete guide to implement and assess learning gains when implementing game based learning in core content areas.  
• A comprehensive curriculum for an ISTE based game design course and game design software.
• A broad exploration of appropriate serious gaming applications designed to accelerate learning and a model for assessing the impact of a serious gaming program.
• TurningPoint student response systems demonstrated as a progress monitoring tool for evaluating the effectiveness of a serious game implementation.

Dr. Dede, a professor at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education and a leading researcher in using multiuser virtual environments for assessing student learning, will detail curriculum and research results based on his findings as a lead researcher for the River City Project, a Multi-User Virtual Environment for Learning Scientific Inquiry and 21st Century SkillsAdditionally and his efforts with the the EcoMuve Project, a Multi-User Virtual Environment (MUVE)-based ecosystems science curriculum for middle school students. Dr. Dede’s research interests span emerging technologies for learning and includes a grant from the U.S. Department of Education Star Schools initiative to development and study augmented reality simulations using wireless mobile devices.
 

Afternoon Session

Dr. Sartori will demonstrate specific open source games and virtual learning environments that will engage students in each of the core content areas. Workshop attendees will be provided access to both the games and corresponding lessons. GameMaker Pro will be demonstrated as an open source game design software that can be used to transform traditional technology courses into a video game design course that teaches all of the ISTE standards. The use of TurningPoint student response systems will be explored as a tool to collect the necessary data to prove the effectiveness of educational gaming.