Students Using Indigenous Knowledge in Video Game Creation to Develop Design Thinking Skills

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Author(s): Professor Neil Anderson (James Cook University, Australia)and Lyn Courtney (James Cook University, Australia)
Copyright: 2011
Pages: 14
Source title: Handbook of Research on Improving Learning and Motivation through Educational Games: Multidisciplinary Approaches
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Patrick Felicia (Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-495-0.ch036

Keywords: Educational Technologies / Gaming / Information Science Reference / Media & Communications

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This chapter describes an educational intervention to introduce and develop design thinking skills with two groups of Australian Indigenous high school students in Far North Queensland and reports on the first phase of the data collection. The initial data collection involved interviewing key personnel at the two sites to gauge their perceptions about the feasibility of the project. This project represents the first time that Australian Indigenous students have participated in videogame creation with an emphasis on using Indigenous knowledge to develop design thinking skills along with literacy and numeracy skills. During the intervention, Year 10 students will be introduced to design thinking skills in the context of developing computer video games using Australian Indigenous knowledge (e.g., a simulation game involving a fictitious island in the Torres Strait).

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