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April 2011
Scalable Game Design
was recently featured in the article
Scalable Game Design Makes Math Class Fun!
published by
CU Outreach and Engagement.
The article describes how introducing the Scalable Game Design curriculum into
Ft. Lupton (Colorado) Middle School has created new enthusiasm for math.
The Scalable Game Design program aims to increase opportunities for computer
science and STEM education in public schools by motivating and teaching
students through computer game design and computational science. Students are
acquiring computational thinking skills by collaboratively engaged in problem
solving, creativity, modeling and communication.
The project is a collaboration between CU-Boulder's Computer Science Department,
the School of Education, the Science Discovery program, and AgentSheets, Inc.
Under the direction of Professor Alexander Repenning
and assistance from Professors David Webb and
Clayton Lewis;
AgentSheet's project manager, Dr. Andri Ioannidou;
PhD students Kyu Han Koh, Ashok Basawapatna,
Vicki Bennett, Krista Marshall,
and Ian Her Many Horses;
and Science Discovery Instructor Fred Gluck,
this program has not only reached the students of Ft. Lupton Middle School,
but is being used at schools in the Denver-metro area, Pueblo, the Southern Ute
Indian Reservation near Ignacio in Southwest Colorado, the Oglala Sioux Indian
Reservation in South Dakota, Wyoming, Texas, and Alaska.
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