Submitted by pallison on Sat, 01/30/2010 - 7:38am.

About this curriculum

Deep Understandings:

In addition to the skills and knowledge from the core curriculum, students will understand games. Students will be able to:

  • analyze games in a meaningful way,
  • know how, and why, games help create certain experiences and evoke certain emotions and feelings in its players,
  • know how games are used, and can be used, as an expressive medium, and
  • have an informed discussion on the merits (or lack thereof) of a particular work.

    (from Jose Pizagal's Ludoliteracy)

  • application of game mechanics Putting the Fun in Functional: Applying Game Mechanics to Functional Software (This video starts out by laying bare some of the fundamentals)

Calendar

Week 1 - What is a game?
Feb 22 - Feb 26 (Tech Thursday Feb 25 - YV Assessment)

  • Introduction to Game Literacy
  • Game Design Lesson 1: Games, Play, and Emergence

Week 2 - Can games change the world?
March 1 - March 5 (Tech Thursday March 4 - YV Assessment)

  • Intro to Human Rights and Choosing Serious Issues
  • Game Design Lesson 2: Goals, Obstacles, and Chance
  • Evoke begins March 3.

Week 3 - How do games get serious?
March 8 - March 12 (Tech Thursday March 11 - Games)

  • Explore Serious Issue Through Gameplay
  • Game Design: Core Mechanics and Narrative

Week 4 - What do games teach us?
March 15 - March 19

  • Battle of the Issues
  • Found Object Game Design

Week 5 -
March 22 - March 26 (Tech Thursday March 25 - Games)

  • Narrowing the topic
  • Core Mechanics

Week 6 - April 12 - April 16 (Tech Thursday, April 15 - YV Assessment)

  • Game Company Roleplay
  • Researching the issue

Week 7- April 19 - April 23 (Tech Thursday April 22 - Games)

  • Serious Game Design
  • Field Trip/Guest Speaker

Week 8 - April 26 - April 30

  • Finalize Serious Game Design Concept
  • Paper Prototyping

Week 9 - May 3 - May 7 (Tech Thursday May 6 - YV Upgrade)

  • Design Team Work Day
  • Design Team Work Day 2

Week 10 - May 10 - 14

  • Final Design and Presentation Day

Week 11 - May 17 - 21 (Tech Thursday May 20 - YV Upgrade)

  • Reflection and Assessment

Week 12 - May 24 - 28

Week 13 - May 31 - June 4 (Tech Thursday June 3 - YV Upgrade)