Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
Using Game Jams as a School Transition Event. |
| Authors: |
Ford, Amanda1, Kelly, Simon2 |
| Source: |
Proceedings of the European Conference on Games Based Learning. 2016, Vol. 1, p202-207. 6p. 5 Color Photographs. |
| Subject Terms: |
*Educational games, *Group work in education, *School children, *Conferences & conventions, Video game development, Scratch (Computer program language) |
| Abstract: |
The Mini Game Jam was an idea that the lead author as a way to enable primary school children to experience how a game jam works but on a smaller timescale and was first run in Glasgow in June 2013. Now into year three of the event it is gaining popularity with more schools within Glasgow who are seeing the benefit of the event by working in their school learning communities to use as a transition from primary to secondary school. This paper will discuss how the event came about and how it works. It will also give an account of one schools experiences of being involved from the beginning until now. Finally, this paper will discuss the need for future events like this to engage more children positively within not just games but computing as a whole. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Database: |
Education Research Complete |
