[IAEP] kids building Re: activities (games) recommended age

[STEPHEN JACOBS]

Howdy folks,

just a reminder that to get some other folks involved from outside of the IAEP group looking at your educational games questions/comments/research you should think about joining the International Game Developers Association Special Interest group on Learning, Education and Games

 (https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/igdaleg)

We've got 112 members from Industry and Academia and it's a great way to find like minded folks
On Nov 28, 2012, at 7:10 PM, Yama Ploskonka wrote:

> James,
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> impressive work! congrats!
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> On 11/28/2012 04:19 PM, James Simmons wrote:
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> http://www.flossmanuals.net/e-book-enlightenment/
>> eate books too.  Just as we have students writing Sugar Activities and even contributing code to Sugar itself we will also soon have students writing and publishing textbooks and other materials.
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> in a few words, what do you think is the key elements that are stopping kids from doing that?
> As you present them so well, it is not because of lack of tools and resources.
> I would assume there would be a ramp up, a few at first, then a deluge. So far apparently really not much...
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> Something must be missing. After 5 years and couple million XO's in the wild, it's not happening (yet?), to the point that maybe it will never happen?
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> BTW, you know that the kids contributing code, they can be counted with the fingers of one hand... Which makes them all the more important, but, again, why not more? why not teachers, hundreds of them?
> Maybe it's something to do with construct***sm? Evolution?
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