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The Number One Educational Resource for the Game Industry

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Educators Soapbox

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This annual session will consist of a series of enlightening, opinion based microtalks as given by veteran educators and game scholars. Experience different perspectives on preparing students to avoid typical first-job pitfalls, defending why one teaches in a game program, voicing the struggles of urban minority students studying games, cultural design aesthetics for teaching game design to youth of color, game design as a liberal art, and harassment and toxicity in the academy as presented by this cast of colleagues: Laura Dilloway (inkle Studios), Seth Hudson (GMU), Alec McClure (CUNY), Damon Packwood (Gameheads), Jane Pinckard (USC), and Gillian Smith (WPI).

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  • GDC 2018
  • Seth Hudson
  • George Mason University
  • Gillian Smith
  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  • Jane Pinckard
  • USC
  • Damon Packwood
  • Gameheads
  • Laura Dilloway
  • inkle
  • Alec McClure
  • City University of New York
  • Michael Mateas
  • UC Santa Cruz
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  • Educators Summit
  • Game Career / Education
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