IGDA Education SIG Curriculum Workshop

IGDA Education SIG Curriculum Workshop - Monday, March 5, 2007

IGDA Education SIG Curriculum Workshop

Quick Link to Key Sessions:

Curriculum Framework Roundtables

Curricular Models

Design Workshop

International Case Blasts

R & D Industry Panel

Teaching Methods

Early Bird Discount

Register prior to January 31, 2007 to receive the biggest discount. IGDA Members receive an additional $50 discount.

Links

IGDA Education SIG

Game Developer's Conference

Please bring your laptop/wi-fi card, as this will be a hands on interactive workshop.

Monday - March 5th

(Work-in-progress. Final schedule subject to change.)

10:00 AM	Keynote Doug Church - Electronic Arts Los Angeles Doug Church, a long time industry developer and participant in Industry/Academy communications, will discuss some hopes and fears about the collaboration. In the last 5 years the entire tone of the "games in education" discussion has changed, mostly for the better. And while we certainly haven't solved all industry/academy communication issues, we have made real progress. The bulk of the talk will consider what things might look like in 5 more years, what opportunities (and obstacles) are still in front of us, and hopefully inspire some aggressive thinking about the future.
11:15 AM	Design Workshop Nick Fortugno - gameLab The idea of using games in education continues to gain steam, but that hasn't made the process of making educational games any easier. Designing games for educational purposes is a process that requires new thoughts on both education and game creation. This session takes the design perspective. What does it mean to make a game? How do you make that _fun_? Participants engage in a hands-on non-digital design exercise to explore the specific challenges of game creation.
12:30 PM	Working Lunch Roundtables Magy Seif El-Nasr - Penn State In working lunch I, participants will divide into groups to discuss and revise the current framework. Groups will be divided to cover subject areas of the curriculum (e.g., design, programming, theory). The goal is to recommend revisions to the 2003 Curriculum Framework looking for problems: holes, insufficient detail, ambiguity and repetition. Each group will report findings via the IGDA blog.
2:00 PM	Teaching Methods Tracy Fullerton - USC This session will discuss a variety of teaching methods in relation to game design and development. The introduction will look at goals, strategies and several case studies. Milan Petrovich will then organize attendees to break out into groups to brainstorm on specific topics which might include: Managing the scope of student game projects Building interdisciplinary student teams Assigning games as "texts" for game studies courses Issues in building & maintaining game libraries Models for inter-institutional collaboration Balancing theory and practice Competitions and festivals as learning objectives The goal of each break out group will be to come up with shareable teaching strategies for their topic. Darren Torpey, Beth Aileen Dillon Groups will report back ideas from their brainstorms at the end of the session.
4:15 PM	SIG Overview Susan Gold - EdSIG Chairperson The current focus of the SIG is on curriculum development. The SIG Overview will be an opportunity to discuss the decisions behind what have led to our current strategy. Panel: Darren Torpey, Darius Kazemi, Magy Seif El-Nasr, Yusuf Pisan, Tracy Fullerton.
6:00 PM	End