{"id":552,"date":"2017-09-26T12:10:44","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T23:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/?p=552"},"modified":"2017-09-26T12:10:44","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T23:10:44","slug":"games-for-learning-dan-millward-open17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/games-for-learning-dan-millward-open17\/","title":{"rendered":"Games for learning &#8211; Dan Millward #open17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gamefroot.com\/\">Gamefroot<\/a> is a platform for kids to make video games; he&#8217;s also cofounder of Games for Learning conference.<\/p>\n<p>Museums have a desire for innovation but a low appetite for risk. Air and Space Smithsonian though makes more on its digital content than all the other Smithsonian<\/p>\n<p>Gamefroot gets a media palette eg terrain, background, effects, events &#8211; can put it together, preview, make game. Creating an app. Eg<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Game about museum &#8211; writing labels<\/li>\n<li>Mihi maker game<\/li>\n<li>After-school game design club<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Playing games can be educational but hard to compete with games out on the market. Gamefroot by contrast is about construction. Giving kids a reason to want to learn.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s in making a game?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>digital tech \/ code<\/li>\n<li>media<\/li>\n<li>narrative<\/li>\n<li>production<\/li>\n<li>ideation \/ testing \/ feedback<\/li>\n<li>teamwork<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Code Red project &#8211; pilot of coding workshops &#8211; but have evolved beyond code clubs to game design clubs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gamefroot is a platform for kids to make video games; he&#8217;s also cofounder of Games for Learning conference. Museums have a desire for innovation but a low appetite for risk. Air and Space Smithsonian though makes more on its digital content than all the other Smithsonian Gamefroot gets a media palette eg terrain, background, effects, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[50,283],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":554,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions\/554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}