3 papers
cs.CY2018
Evaluation of Game Templates to support Programming Activities in Schools
Bernadette Spieler, Christian Schindler, Wolfgang Slany +4
Game creation challenges in schools potentially provide engaging, goal-oriented, and interactive experiences in classes; thereby supporting the transfer of knowledge for learning i…
cs.CY2018
Pocket Code: a mobile app for game jams to facilitate classroom learning through game creation
Bernadette Spieler, Anja Petri, Christian Schindler +5
Game jams are a way to create games under fast-paced conditions and certain constraints. The increase in game jam events all over the world, their engaging and creative nature, wit…
cs.CY2018
The role of game jams in developing informal learning of computational thinking: a cross-european case study
Helen Boulton, Bernadette Spieler, Anja Petri +3
This paper will present a cross-European experience of game jams as part of a Horizon 2020 funded project: No-one Left Behind (NOLB). The NOLB project was created to unlock inclusi…