Game Design for Green Jobs Youth Pathways
[3 STEM Clock Hours] Lively, user interaction design charrette for secondary CTE educators, game designers, and students to storyboard an interactive portal for Sustainability Ambassadors’ Green Jobs Youth Pathways website. Explore career connected lesson ideas and job profiles.
Time & Location
Nov 07, 2020, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Zoom Meeting
About the Event
This real-world charrette is organized as an online practicum for learning about local green jobs and designing related lessons while developing a product plan for an interactive platform. Sustainability Ambassadors, in partnership with the Port of Seattle, has already established a foundation of Green Jobs Youth Pathways on our website as a collection of job profiles, career pathway tables, and related lesson ideas. As this collection develops, how can we expand its use in thousands of CTE classrooms by gamifying career explorations? What is the best user experience? How do we include photos, graphics, and video? What is the branching navigation for multiple explorations? Can we engage users in the design process?
Participants in this charette will come away with not only lesson ideas and resources for career connected learning, but a sense of being part of an ongoing user/designer learning community.
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