*Please note: Rebooting the Classroom: Leveling up Motivation, Collaboration, and Learning with Gameful Pedagogy is for accepted participants only.
Rebooting the Classroom: Leveling up Motivation, Collaboration, and Learning with Gameful Pedagogy is professional development for classroom teachers and coaches ready to harness an interest in games and digital media with student-centered, differentiated, and project-based learning. The only specialized PD track at the GLS Playful Learning Summit facilitated by and for classroom teachers (facilitators Amanda Pratt and Tim Saunders teach high school social studies and elementary general studies, respectively), accepted participants will create their own gameful pedagogies by “rebooting” their classroom teaching through design, play, and assessment. Participants will: design games aligned with content-specific learning goals applicable to digital, hybrid, and analog environments; explore the features of various games and gameful pedagogies as they support powerful learning outcomes; and create debrief and reflection structures that provide formative assessment opportunities across grade levels and disciplines.
