Alyson Katz
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Louisville Middle School/ Manhattan Middle School
How will I introduce Scalable Game Design in my school?
With enthusiasm and excitement for authentic meaningful 21st century learning!!!
What I have done in the past?
Click here to see [1]
Plan for Scalable Game Design
K-12
1. The plan is to introduce Agentsheets to the 6th grade computer exploratory class in the last week of a 6 week rotation. Each day there is a 49 minute class. They will follow the 5 day frogger tutorial (see lessons below)
2. Introduce a 4 week unit into the semester Computer Power class. These classes will be 49 minutes each. It will begin with socrataic seminar then design and continue following the computational thinking model along with Agentsheets. Students will create 2 games using tutorials and then a 3rd game collaboratively and a 4th independent game.
HIgher Ed
Introduce computational thinking into Educational Technology graduate classes. Instructional Design - use this in the research cycle
Technology for Educators - have students follow similar 1 week plan above and evaluate agent sheets in education and business worlds
Software Eval - students will evaluate the product for its usage in their profession.
What is computational thinking? [2]
Lessons
Project Journal
Rotation 1 6th grade The good news is we did program the basic frogger game and the students loved the experience.
a few notes: One week is not enough time to do it all. There is a fair amount of organization involved and I would recommend 2 weeks so there is enough time for the students to focus on creating the game and have enough time to understand the basic concepts
Hand out permission forms several weeks in advance and get the pre-survey in about 2 weeks before. This gives you time to get things in order. I would leave 3 days for uploading as we never got a chance to do that and take the post survey. If you are done early then the students can advance
Rotation 2 6th grade coming soon
