Educade

Organization: GameDesk
Role: Content management and strategy
Period: 2011–2013

Educade was a companion website to the PlayMaker School, created by the team I was a part of at GameDesk. Educade was awarded AT&T’s largest-ever grant to an educational organization. The site was designed to share the PlayMaker School’s novel model for school design: our game- and play-based curriculum and its supporting tools and technologies. I managed the content curation and curriculum creation team and also served on the project team that designed the site architecture, content strategy, taxonomy, and overall user experience.

The Minecraft teaching-tool page, with a cross-curricular category, grade levels, platform information, and a creator credit for Tanner Higgin. — A page sharing classroom implementation approaches for Minecraft.

Students seated around a projected map on the floor of the PlayMaker classroom. — The PlayMaker classroom.

Selected Press Coverage

Five Ed-Tech Companies That Are Taking Gamification to the Next Level: Part I Education Week
‘Educade’ features hands-on lessons, teaching tools eSchool News
Curating Games-Based Learning HuffPost
When to Teach Physics with ‘Angry Birds’ EdSurge
Game-Based Learning Ideas from ISTE Edutopia