Games Are Good for You! What Games Teach Us About STEM & Learning

What can we learn from games? Come explore the many ways that you can use game dynamics and gamification to increase learning and boost engagement in your STEM classroom. Discover how popular games such as Minecraft and SimCity provide playgrounds for creativity and robust opportunities for collaboration and critical thinking in the classroom. Finally, learn about the many opportunities for coding and computer science that are embedded in the process of having kids designing and programming games as a demonstration of their learning.

• Time: 7:00pm EST/ 4:00pm PST/ 1:00pm HST
• Speakers: Maggie Keeler (@KeelerMS), Douglas Kiang (@dkiang), and Kate Wilson (@katewilson13)