Computing for Social Good 5: Games in Education

On 26th June 2018 I was very pleased to talk about the work members of the Computing team at the University of Northampton have been involved in, around games within the teaching of programming.

The recent #WomenEd meeting, in Milton Keynes, organised by Anita Devi (@Butterflycolour), Anne Goldsmith (@AnneMGoldsmith) and Jay Rixon(@teaching_think) (focused on Games in Education and a lively discussion on this topic was had, after a number of presentations. Below are the slides to my presentation.

Games in Teaching Programming: HE Perspective from Scott Turner

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.6726032.v1

Some of the tweets from the event

#Edgames as promised here is my crib sheet on games and tech in the classroom- feel free to share it or download it! https://t.co/rha6Zt4LMU

— ThinkTeaching (@teaching_think) June 28, 2018

Thanks for coming @cookiehj1 it was such a rich discussion! Thanks to @AnneMGoldsmith for hosting #EdGames @Butterflycolour a great #WomenEd event. Thanks too to all the speakers and attendees.. https://t.co/IzcuBNNL9m

— ThinkTeaching (@teaching_think) June 28, 2018

#WomenEd #EdGames we are having great ( and quite in-depth) discussions on #gaming in education-lots of knowledge exchange going on! pic.twitter.com/Cr16WG1TnQ

— ThinkTeaching (@teaching_think) June 28, 2018

#WomenEd #EdGames @scottturneruon from @UniNorthants sharing why gaming in #highered #HEI is relevant for developing #ChangeMakers #ProblemSolvers @teaching_think To game or not to game! pic.twitter.com/KfP38R9aF2

— Anita Devi | FRSA ✨ (@Butterflycolour) June 28, 2018

Final session #WomenEd #EdGames @Sarahinthelib #Research / information organisation games pic.twitter.com/IwWCofGhBM

— Anita Devi | FRSA ✨ (@Butterflycolour) June 28, 2018

Thank you so much for inviting me - a really interesting evening with a conversation to be continued and shared more widely. https://t.co/dymqOHml7G

— JFlutter (@CCTCommunities) June 28, 2018

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