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Game Development for Kids

Event Interactive 2010
Format Panel
Organizer Henry Halff Twist Education LLC
Description Letting kids develop computer games is a great way to teach them how to program, and how to think. This panel will explore systems that children can use to make their own games. If you're an educator, programmer, tinkerer, or a kid, this panel should appeal to you.
Questions
Answered
  1. Describe your development environment.
  2. Show us a game that a kid developed.
  3. What common features or threads do you see among the environments here?
  4. What do kids like about your environment?
  5. What frustrates kids about your environment?
  6. What do kids learn from your environment?
  7. What is the most exciting research done with your environment?
  8. How and where has your environment been deployed?
  9. How does the use of your environment foster and promote a learning community?
  10. What are the historical and technical roots of your work?
Level Intermediate
Category Design Thinking, Education, User Generated Content, Video Games