
Session Information
Title | Designing K-6 educational games from Playstation to PSP |
Presenter(s) | Dave Adams and Peter Rogan, PLATO Learning, Inc. |
Time | Friday, October 10, 10:30a-11:30a |
Location | Ballroom |
Format | Speaker |
Description | Why would an educational content publisher be interested in designing games?
In the 1990s, Achieve Now was introduced to teach reading / language arts skills and mathematics to children in grades K thru 6. It grew into 81 separate PlayStation titles. It has been sold to hundreds of districts, along with Sony PlayStation hardware for classroom, after school, and at-home use. PLATO Learning recently partnered with Sony to bring our Achieve Now learning content to the Sony PSP. We will focus on the challenges of game design from an educational perspective, then applying that design process to deployment on a mainstream gaming platform. We will discuss the effort to produce and maintain a learning tool like this on a gaming platform, including:
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