Teacher Jam Chicago

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Game Jam Chicago TBD

The rough game plan

This is a draft, thrown up during the ILXO open house - it will be fleshed in shortly by Nlee.

• One day, all day, on a Saturday.
• Food provided.
• The IL K-12 curriculum standards (or a subset thereof) are thrown up on a very large wall.
• Teachers (and students and hackers, but primarily teachers) from across the state come in for the day to...
  • Fill in the grid with ways (and perhaps curricular plans) existing materials on/for the XO can be used to address these standards (i.e. "you could use TurtleArt to convey this math concept in 4th grade, and again in 7th.")
  • Identify gaps where the XO could support acquisition of these curricular standards "if only this one missing part existed!" and coming up with descriptions of what needs to be built, so that hackers can build it
  • Brainstorm on pilots

Schedule

Tentatively slated out for 4 hours, weekday evening
[times not set]

4 - 4:30 pm: Introductory remarks
4:30 - 5 pm: Stuff thrown up on board
5 - 6:30 pm: Brainstorm
6:30 - 8 pm: Dinner + Wrap-up
7:30 - 8 pm: Determination of desired outputs (may need more time?)