EXCALIBUR: Creating a Story and Gaming Academy for Middle Schoolers – Hits and Misses
Peggy Sheehy, Teacher (Game Master) | EPIC Learners EXCALIBUR: Creating a Story and Gaming Academy for Middle Schoolers – Hits and Misses Wrapping up year two of the 8th grade elective, Excalibur, I will reflect on what went right, what went wrong, and what I plan to do next year. Excalibur is an elective that aims to accomplish multiple educational and social goals — the primary being to provide students with a real-world experience and skillset that can transfer to any modern profession. Using the concept of forming a game-design company, and making all of the decisions necessary to have that company produce a successful game, students are able to identify and master a diverse selection of technical skills as well as public speaking, narrative creation, branding and marketing, sound effects and voice-overs, art from conception through animation, researching to insure authenticity, management, leadership and teamwork. Presented by the Serious Play Conference seriousplayconf.com at Orlando, University of Central Florida, UCF, July 24-26, 2019 Montreal, Canada, Quebec, UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL, UNIVERSITY OF QUEBEC IN MONTREAL, July 10-12, 2019
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- 14. HAIL EXCALIBUR ! 1. Set up the xbox and the PS3 - Play JOURNEY and Madden, OR SOMETHING ON YOUR PHONE until we begin 3. Generate Game list by genre and device (console? computer?) and a. If you have it to donate OR b. If we need to purchase it 4. Generate acceptable snack list -- consider food allergies! 5. Review Course syllabus from web
- 16. Core beliefs… ■ students invest when they can be creative ■ students learn best by doing ■ social engagement can be a powerful accelerant to learning ■ Students can only develop an understanding if they have a curiosity about the world they live in … ■ …and also an understanding of the needs and desires of others
- 17. VISION… ■Excalibur’s STEAM curriculum will connect students to engaging, collaborative, learning activities by employing sound education principles, and technical skills & concepts that are critical to the constantly changing and evolving field of computer science.
- 18. MISSION… ■ STUDENTS will LEARN HOW TO CODE BY USING REAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROCESSES TO DESIGN, PROGRAM AND PUBLISH MOBILE GAMES AND Game APPS ■students will develop their knowledge of the role of design within society ■Students will explore Moral, Social, and Cultural question which arise within the design process… ■Students will gain insight into the marketing & branding processes of design production
- 19. Standards…■Over the past few decades, computers have transformed both the world and the workforce in many profound ways. As a result, computer science and the technologies it enables now lie at the heart of our economy and the way we live our lives. ■To be well-educated citizens in a computing-intensive world and to be prepared for careers in the 21st century, our students must have a clear understanding of the principles and practices of computer science. No other subject will open as many doors in the 21st century as computer science, regardless of a student’s ultimate field of study or occupation. --- CSTA K-12 Computer Science Standards
- 20. GOALS… the EXCALIBUR curriculum is designed to: ■ Attract interest in computer science from a broad and diverse range of students ■ Teach the fundamentals of programming and computational thinking ■ Instill confidence in working with technology ■ Foster creativity, curiosity, and collaboration ■ Teach how to program computing devices to make things of real-world interest and use
- 21. STUDENTS WILL… ▪ DEVELOP THEIR KNOWLEDGE OF DESIGN And TECHNOLOGY WITHIN SOCIETY ▪ BROADEN Their Knowledge OF TOOLS, TECHNIQUES AND STRATEGIES ▪ investigate product aesthetics and functions, both past and present ▪ examine how they affect the quality of our daily lives. ▪ develop their thinking skills and explore the wider world around them ▪ reflect upon what they see and develop an open mind
- 22. Students who successfully complete this course will be able to: ■Describe what a computer program is ■ Use and implement common program control structures ■ Read code in the environment and describe what it does ■ Create and publish apps and games
- 23. What did the plan really LOOK like ?!?
- 24. The Arcade
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- 26. The Company…