Scratch+Video+Game

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The Problem
Kids these days' are more interested in video games than school.
 * Guiding Question: Is it is possible to design a video games for educational purposes?**
 * Area of Interaction: Community and Service**

Design Brief
1. You will research different kinds of video games and reflect on what kind of video games might make the best educational games. 2. You will create a SCRATCH game so that it has educational benefit.

DB Task 1: What kinds of games might work?
Your first task is to play some video games and reflect on how they might be turned into an educational game. Please only play 1 or 2 games of the same type and then try some different ones.

Make a new Google Document called Video Game Project Journal and share it with manitoutech. You will use this document to record your reflections during this project. Every time you play a different game put a link to the game in your page and write 2 or 3 sentences reflecting on whether that game could be ALTERED to make it educational, and HOW it could be altered. KEEP IN MIND WE ARE TRYING TO BRAINSTORM ALTERATIONS THAT WOULD STILL KEEP THE GAME INTERESTING. MINIMUM REQUIREMENT: 3 brainstorms on 3 different kinds of game.

Game Sites

 * [|Mini Clip] || [|Fun Brain] || [|CBC Kids Games] ||  ||
 * [|Mini Clip] || [|Fun Brain] || [|CBC Kids Games] ||  ||

**DB Task 2: What do we already know?**
Read ONE of the articles below and write a 4 or 5 sentence summary of the main points in your shared google document. Computer games could become part of the school curriculum after researchers found they had significant educational value.
 * [|Video Games Stimulate Learning]

The phenomenon of the videogame as an agent of mental training is largely unstudied; more often, games are denigrated for being violent or they're just plain ignored. They shouldn't be.
 * [|Games, not school, are teaching kids to think]

The use of computer games in education is going to be tested out in four secondary schools in the UK.
 * [|Games to be tested in classrooms]

DB Task 3: Create a Educational Video Game
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