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Level up your STEM education program with GameSalad. GameSalad for Education Dan Magaha [email protected] Wednesday, March 5, 14

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Video games are the dominant medium of today's students. 90% of American children play them daily. It's no surprise that game development education is a great way to engage students in STEM literacy and education, and GameSalad is the fastest way to get your students engaged in experimenting, iterating, and building games. In this session, we'll introduce you to GameSalad, show you how easy it is to build games with it, and how schools all over the world use GameSalad in their classrooms. Originally presented at SXSW Edu 2014

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Level up your STEM education program with GameSalad.

GameSalad for EducationDan Magaha

[email protected]

Wednesday, March 5, 14

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Dan MagahaDirector of Operations

GameSalad, Inc.

[email protected]/sxsw2014

Wednesday, March 5, 14

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gamesalad.com/sxsw2014 [email protected]

A New Way to Learn to Code

Traditional Game DevelopmentIntimidating, tedious

Visual DevelopmentNo coding required

Visual development dramatically changes the learning curve

• Programming can be intimidating, tedious, and boring.

• GameSalad demystifies game development and fosters experimentation.

• Rapid development model allows students to achieve success quickly.

• Rule-based pseudocode approach develops logical & analytical skills.

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Professional Strength Tools

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GameSalad enables designers to quickly create sophisticated games for iOS, Android & HTML5 without having to write a single line of code.

700,000developers

200,000games created

70 Top 100games in the US App Store

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How is game design being used?

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• Game design courses

• Entrepreneurship & business courses• Introduction to programming

• Art & visual design

• In lieu of traditional “book reports” or group projects

• Multimodal communication exercises• Modeling and simulation of physical

sciences

• Developing targeted instructional design

• “Gaming for a cause”

Middle/High School

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How is game design being used?

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• Deconstruction exercises

• Cause / effect simulations• Group discussions of technology

concepts

• Customized instructional design / remediation games

Elementary School & Younger Learners

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Case Studies

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• 3rd year teaching game design • Classes of 20 students• Each student builds a full game project

from scratch including all design, art, sound, and implementation

• Now offering dual credit with Texas State Technical College

Doug Gregory - PSJA Early Memorial High

“Students are passionate about creating their own games. GameSalad gives students a great starting point, while also allowing them to grow as the designers & programmers of the future. “

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Case Studies

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• PEAKS Summer Camp program

• K-12 STEM education focus• Started teaching game design in 2010

• Teaches over 200 students each summer to develop games with GameSalad

• Frequent speaker at edu conferences

Chris Thompson - Georgia Tech CEISMIC Initiative

“Every Teacher Should Become an App Creator”

92% of students who attended camp said it increased their interest in computer science

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Case Studies

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• Professor, English Department • Focus on digital and multimodal

rhetoric studies

• Uses GameSalad as a tool for student multimedia projects

• Considers GameSalad the “iMovie of videogames”

• Other uses of the tool include technical writing class for healthcare majors, persuasive games and political science

Dr. Steven Holmes - George Mason University

“GameSalad offers a great solution to the pragmatic confines of time and space that face rhetoric and writing teachers who are interested in  video game design.”

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Case Studies

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• CTE / Technology Teacher• Rural school district w/699 students • 2nd year teaching game design

• Students initially developed simple games but graduated to sophisticated instructional design projects

• Her students are now building math remediation games for Wimberley Elementary

Mrs. Denise Jackson - Wimberley High School

“All students play games but few realized the effort behind creating them... GameSalad opened their eyes to what they could accomplish.”

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Case Studies

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• Largest summer camp program in the world

• Now in 15th year of operation

• Utilizes GameSalad for game design camps at middle and high school level

• Over 5,000 students a year get their first introduction to game design at iD using GameSalad

iD Tech Camps

“It’s not just them sitting and playing... it’s them actually understanding the

dynamic behind it and what goes into it...”

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Educational Offering

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• Specialized Education SKU• Comprehensive Curriculum• Optional Textbook

• Certification Program

• Webinars & Live Training Events

• Asset Packs for Educators

• Priority Technical Support• Educator/Student Discounts

Turn-key STEM Education

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Level Up your STEM education program!

Dan [email protected]

www.gamesalad.com/sxsw2014

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