Overview
Cai is really interested in making his own games. For now, the Basic evolution of the card, we are looking at designing his own levels in kid-friendly games that encourage this.I am already planning a first evolution in which he will start to make basic games in Scratch Jr and play "learn coding" video and board games, but that will come later.
As part of showing what he learned, and his new project of making his own Youtube channel, Cai made a Let's Play video demonstrating making levels in Putt-Putt and Pep's Balloon-a-rama, incorporating literacy and communication goals as well. He also helped me design channel art. We discussed at length what he likes about Youtube Let's Plays and what makes an entertaining Let's Play.
I am already planning a first evolution in which he will start to make basic games in Scratch Jr and play "learn coding" video and board games, but that will come later.
As part of showing what he learned, and his new project of making his own Youtube channel, Cai made a Let's Play video demonstrating making levels in Putt-Putt and Pep's Balloon-a-rama, incorporating literacy and communication goals as well. He also helped me design channel art. We discussed at length what he likes about Youtube Let's Plays and what makes an entertaining Let's Play.
He learned and practiced the skills of the game development cycle of prototyping, playtesting, iteration and further playtesting. He proved to be better at game design than me, and fixed my own attempts to get them to be challenging enough while not frustrating!
He was really engaged in making his levels fun and thinking about what would make someone (me) enjoy them, including building minigames in Disney Infinity. I was really pleased with the work he did on theory of mind and empathy.
Learning Goals
- Creativity
- Spacial skills (designing levels)
- Probability and prediction
- Design: planning, prototyping, testing, iteration
- Communication and presentation
- Persistence, practice and coping with mistakes
- Considering the needs and point of view of others
Australian Curriculum Links
Literacy: composing texts
- compose spoken, written, visual and multimodal learning area texts
- use language to interact with others
- deliver presentations
Arts: Media Technologies
- Evaluating
- Collaborating and managing
- Use media technologies to capture and edit images, sounds and text for a purpose
Mathematics
- Shape
- Location and transformation
- Data representation and interpretation
- Answer yes/no questions to collect information and make simple inferences
- Describe position and movement
Hey Cai,
ReplyDeleteThat's great I'm so proud of you.
pappa.