| Session Name: | Educators Soapbox |
| Speaker(s): | Seth Hudson, Gillian Smith, Jane Pinckard, Damon Packwood, Laura Dilloway, Alec McClure, Michael Mateas |
| Company Name(s): | George Mason University, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USC, Gameheads, inkle, City University of New York, UC Santa Cruz |
| Track / Format: | Educators Summit |
| Overview: | 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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