Ireland

Inventorium’s Education Idea Generation workshop took some of the problems and challenges discussed at the Education Symposium in March, and applied them to a pens-and-paper, storyboard-generating workshop. It was the idea that education should be ‘hard fun’ that drove the event, generating ideas for games to target early years’ learners, games that provide assessment opportunities, and games for out-of-school learning.

Each team included product designers from NCAD, animator Mark Flood and transition-year students from a range of Dublin-area schools. The aim was to generate ideas and solutions to problems raised by the problem holders.

Speakers 

• Iseult Coffey, HMH
• Dr. Marion Palmer, IADT
• Teresa Dillon, NDRC Inventorium
• Martin Owen, Inventorium Wales

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Ideas Generated
Wasted - a scrapyard game for learning about physics and the properties of different recycled materials and objects.
Time Machine - A history scavenger hunt with augmented reality, where players take photographs that, if correct, provide information about the spot they’ve found. Included online and multi-player options, where you challenge other users to unlock information.
I wanna be - for 0-5 year-olds, or greater difficulty for 6-12 or 12-18 year-olds. Players build an avatar of a member of a profession, then walk through set of tasks that person might have to do during a day’s work.
Grandparent Game - Intergenerational game playing between grandparents and grandchildren in different countries and time zones. Featured a gaming element that sets tasks for one another, a learning element to learn about respective countries, and scrapbooking element where they make things together.

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