Gameblox is a game-building platform developed at the Scheller Teacher Education Program over the last couple years and featured in the EdTechX series of online courses produced by our lab. In this workshop, Paul Medlock-Walton will introduce Gameblox with beginner tutorials and a discussion on how Gameblox is designed to be used in classrooms.
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Option 2: “Gameblox workshop: A brand new blocks-based programming environment for creating games”
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“Option 1 – MIT Game Lab, Paper Prototyping Workshop”
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Option 1: “Fishbanks: Using simulations to teach systems thinking and sustainability”
One of our the most popular sessions in recent years, Fishbanks is a game that teaches the tragedy of the commons with a computer simulation of fishing fleets and fish populations. Participants will experience the game as it could be implemented in a classroom, with a debrief at the end to cover important discussion points.
Fishbanks is available for K-12 educators to use for free (as “academic” users) – to register, go to go to http://bit.ly/fishbanks and click “Register as an administrator,” then fill out the subsequent form using the email address connected to your institution (it doesn’t need to end in “.edu”, but personal email addresses are not accepted).
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