This project was developed at Macquarie ICT Innovations Centre (MacICT). MacICT is located at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. It is a collaborative agreement between the NSW Department of Education and Training (DET) and Macquarie University, which provides the opportunity for NSW DET schools access to the use of innovative technologies in teaching and learning. MacICT’s mission statement: to develop, implement, and evaluate innovative ways of enhancing learning through the application of dynamic and emerging information and communication technologies. Our game design project offers teachers in NSW who are embracing game design for the first time, a carefully scaffolded rich task, involving both process and product with an assessable and reportable outcome that helps prepare students for life in the 21st century.

1. Cathie Howe Anthony Fennell MacICT

2. Project Description Literacy for students today is no longer linear, it is referred to as multidimensional and multimodal. Games are a multimodal text and the ability to design multimodal texts and products to communicate information is a 21st Century skill. The game design project offers teachers who are embracing game design for the first time, a carefully scaffolded rich task, involving both process and product with an assessable and reportable outcome that helps prepare students for life in the 21st century. Project Description

4. collaboration through all stages of the design process

5. problem solving skills

6. the creation of a multimodal product that demonstrates a student’s ability to comprehend, interpret and create multimodal text using literacy skills accurately, fluently, critically and creatively. Project Outcomes

10. NSW Institute of Teachers(Accreditation and Standards) Sample of NSW Institute Elements mapped to MacICT Projects Teachers continually improve their professional knowledge and practice Capacity to contribute to a professional community 6.2.4 Work productively and openly with colleagues in reviewing teaching strategies and refining professional knowledge and practice. NSW Institute of Teachers

12. Engagement

13. Student direction

14. Knowledge integration

15. ConnectednessNSW Quality Teaching framework

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18. www.gamebasedlearning.org.uk/...60

19. www.edutopia.org/tal-generation-james-gee-video

20. www.blip.tv/2718176A comprehensive list can be found at: http://groups.diigo.com/group/game-design-project Research Question: How game design can be used to improve student’s collaborative and problem solving capabilities? Research

21. Online World at MacICT MacICT webpage: http://www.macict.edu.au/index.php/projects/gbl.html Game Design Blog: http://macictgamedesign.blogspot.com/ Game Design Wiki: http://gamedesign.ictcentre.wikispaces.net/ Game Design Forum: http://gamemaking.ictcentre.wikispaces.net/ Online World at MacICT

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