Kids get excited about designing their own digital games. And so do we! Teachers are assisting children to transition from content consumers to content creators by introducing them to the latest digital and gaming productivity tools.  Game design in particular offers many opportunities to develop higher order thinking skills like understanding and applying systems thinking, creative problem solving, storytelling, programming and collaborating with others.  

 

Check out these student created games, and inspire your students to design their own!

When teaching game design, we recommend beginning with the following game making tools.