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Vygotsky L. Mind in society: The development of higher psychological functions. Another lesson has students designing simulations of assumptions about Dracula. An art lesson incorporated the use of a new Art Games site and drew and sketch apps on the telephone. A kindergarten lesson incorporated the SeeSaw program in simulated construction of a real site. Table 1 shows 20 of the 20 participants successfully inferenced and applied theories and technologies in project designs.

Project designs embedded spectacularly original instructional design. In a project on learning about Missions, 4 th grade students were encouraged to make websites, powerpoints, and youtube videos.

In a project on educational technology integration for teachers in math education, students are encouraged to make games in Kahoot that teach multiplication and division with fractions. In a project on solar system exploration, students are encouraged to work with star charts in interactive games. In a project integrating technology in the classroom with a shared site, students are encouraged to create a game in Scratch that includes equations from the math concepts studied.

In a project on computer science, students are asked to build scratch etoys to learn to think with conditionals. In a project for high school physical education, students are placed in a simulation on health and nutrition.

In a project on technology integration, students were encouraged to play video games and make games in Scratch, a simulation programing tool.

In a project teaching music, students are encouraged to play a game asking them to identify cultural aspects of music videos and create lyrics based upon their own life experiences. In a visual art project on geometric mandala, students are encouraged to make mandalas in Minecraft and Robox, allowing them to create geometric shapes in virtual worlds.

In a project integrating technology into the kindergarten classroom, students are encouraged to program teaching agents. This course was successful in inspiring teacher candidates to analyze and apply simulation, gaming, and programing to instruction with remarkably creativity. Upon reading theories in simulation, gaming, and programing, teacher education candidates analyzed applied theories in meaningful ways in lesson designs and final projects.

The results of this study suggest simulation, gaming, and programing can inspire the teaching of teachers in developing their knowledge and skills needed to shape student development. Participants developed instruction incorporating games, simulation exploration, and construction of simulated programs.

Results show participants were able to understand and reference the theories and it is most likely this is a result of exposure to the reading resources. Thank you to students and technology support staff involved in this study who deserve special appreciation for their incredible efforts. The authors declare no conflicts of interest regarding the publication of this paper.

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Basic Books. American Journal of Public Health, 79, Educational Technology Research and Development, 44, Design of Microworlds in Mathematics and Science Education. Journal of Educational Computing Research, 27, News and World Report. Korea Association of Information Education. While you create a game, it is important to think about the game mechanics, rewards, player engagement and level design. A game developer could be a programmer, a sound designer, an artist, a designer or many other roles available in the industry.

Game Development can be undertaken by a large Game Development Studio or by a single individual. It can be as small or large as you like. To get involved in the Game Development process, you do not need to write code. Artists may create and design assets, while a Developer might focus on programming a health bar. Professional Organizations The following list includes various local, North American and international professional organizations dedicated to video game design, development, and publishing, and the computer and video game industry at large.

Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences This organization promotes interactive games and entertainment, through its Design, Innovate Communicate, Entertain D. Summit and Interactive Achievement Awards. Membership is restricted to qualified industry professionals.