Engaging Brains with Games and Simulations

Bernie Dodge, PhD
Department of Educational Technology, San Diego State University

Want to find another way into the hearts and minds of your students? Give them the tools to create their own simulated worlds and systems. We’ll demonstrate three free development platforms that provide a way to delve deeply into math, science, language arts or history for middle and high school and beyond.

Links mentioned or shown in this presentation at MacWorld 2007:

Concepts and Opinions About Educational Games and Simulations

• Brenda Laurel at Education Arcade, December 2004
• Video Game Addiction
• Marc Prensky - In Educational Games, Complexity Matters

Example Environments

• Inform 7
• Beginner's Guide to Interactive Fiction with Inform7
• Zoom

• Star Logo TNG
• Epidemic
• Wash Your Hands, Homer
• i-Migrate

• Second Life
• Teen Second Life

• The Glass Bead Game
• Hipbone Games
• Gliffy
• My sample game

• Choose Your Own Adventure
• Google Docs