Featuring 20 outstanding presentations, workshops and panel sessions, the Education in Games Summit is a unique learning opportunity offered by The Department of Education and Training, ACMI and Creative Victoria as part of Melbourne International Games Week 2017.
Learn about new technologies supporting the delivery of the digital curriculum from national and international education and game industry leaders, and experience what some of the most progressive schools are doing in this area.
The Summit showcases best practice implementation of games and their positive impact on students to support teachers to effectively activate games in their classrooms.
The Summit demonstrates the extensive range of Early Childhood, Primary and Secondary learning outcomes games offer across the curriculum including:
- STEM
- Digital Technologies
- The Arts and Design
- Coding
- Critical and Creative Thinking
- Supporting students with additional needs
Exploring, understanding, critiquing and making games offers abundant opportunities for students to build the skills and capabilities they need now and into the future.
Keynote speaker Eric Jordan, CEO Codename Entertainment headlines the Summit and will outline how profoundly applicable game development skills are right across the modern jobs market. Other presentations include:
- Assessing maths through gameplay
- Game based learning
- Teach game development without coding
- Get started with code
- Games supporting special needs
- App talks
- Art, coding and careers
$150 (special offers available)