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 * CS16. C. Ross Flatt & Brendon Trombley ** – //Quest To Learn: Growing a School Together//

May 26 Thursday 4:30-5:15 PM HM 150

At Quest to Learn, a school for digital kids, teachers collaborate with game designers to create engaging game-like curriculum for the students. Add your voice to the discussion and join 6th-grade teacher Ross Flatt and game designer Brendon Trombley in an examination of the dynamic between designer and teacher. They’ll go through the process of making games for the classroom and explain how the structure of Quest to Learn facilitates this creation. They’ll showcase two of the games they created together during Fall 2010, demonstrating what a teacher can accomplish with the support of a tech and games-savvy designer. The experience will culminate in a live demonstration of Inhabitation, a strategy game created to help 6th-grade students understand the earliest beginnings of human civilization.

Affiliation/Bio: Quest To Learn; Institute for Play, rflatt@q2l.org. The 6th Grade Being, Space, and Place teacher at Quest to Learn. Being, Space, & Place (BSP) is a humanities course that focuses on English Language Arts (ELA) and social studies. In the 6th grade, we focus on the writing process to create creative writing pieces and thesis essays, while concentrating on cartography and ancient history. Ross and Brendon worked together on a mission that focused on map making, physical geography, and early human settlement. Co-presenter: Brendon Trombley, Quest to Learn; Institute for Play, rendon@instituteofplay.org