What do you do when your child can't keep his head up from video games? How do you get them to learn?
“I say, 'Oh yeah, you guys like this game? Let me show you how that game works. And what else do you want to put into that game? ,” Len Ebersole said. Teacher in Burleson ISD's Game Design School. This is an entire physical building dedicated to teaching students games and everything else on the curriculum using games.
“It's a combination of both math and science and the usual learning language type of things, because you have to learn how to do it. And you have to use the math to create the correct physics and so on. No,” Hayden Rogstad said. school students.
Eversole started the class with a problem with the game he created, making it impossible to win. Before you can collect all the coins, you will be eaten by monsters. So students had to break the code, figure out why, and fix it.
“I'm not very good at games and I'm not good at playing games,” said student Olive Kass. But she's good at coding.
Oliva is the only girl here. It's no wonder that it's hard to convince all the men to code with her fancy nails.
“It was like they were playing a game, but you look at me and you're like, I don't know about that,” she said.
But they now know she's one of the best here.
Educators say students may be coding games today, but they're laying the foundation for building power grids, coding electronics and paying attention to what companies are doing right here in Burleson. thinking.
“They're looking for potential programmers who can teach them programs, like how to open the landing gear or how to detect things that are far away. So we actually joined Lockheed Martin to We work to solve the challenges they give us,” Eversole said.
They graduate with coding certifications and are ready to work at places like Lockheed Martin, but here it's not all about coding.
Ethan Martin started playing games during his middle school classes. Now, he's about to graduate from high school, where he fell in love with the art of computer design and game creation.
“I don't really like working with my hands, but I knew I liked working with computers. And I've always liked animation work,” Martin said. .
The entire school is most like a high-tech company, taking a child's most basic love of fun and helping them turn it into a career.
