On Saturday 19 March 2011 at the Universtity of Abertay Dundee, the Consolarium offers a lively CPD event for teachers as well as a celebration of the diverse and innovative practice in game based learning and game design that has been happening in schools across Scotland. Over the past few years the LTS Consolarium initiative has been working with partner schools across Scotland to help nurture the idea that commercially available computer games that have been developed for entertainment can be used to help create appealing, purposeful and challenging contexts for learning.

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This conference will allow us to share the innovative and effective work of some of the many practitioners in Scotland who have embraced game based learning. The knowledge and experience that will be shared by our colleagues from schools will then be complemented in the afternoon by a range of differentiated hands-on activities aimed at developing delegates’ own confidence and competence in this field. These activities include developing computer games design skills from the early stages through to S6, exploring treasure hunting via geocaching and a game based learning dance session.

This conference promises to deliver an exciting and inspiring CPD experience for those involved in education and Curriculum for Excellence. Delegates can choose from 16 morning seminars and 10 practical afternoon workshops, listen to inspiring opening and closing keynotes and spend time engaging with fellow educators and industry representatives including Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft.

This event has been organised and developed in partnership with JISC Regional Support Centre Scotland North and East.

Full details and registration can be found at http://www.gametolearn.org <http://www.gametolearn.org/>

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