DESIGN THINKING SPURS SYSTEMS CHANGE
Give your students the experience of creating positive social change using iThrive Studio, a design thinking and social and emotional learning experience. Harness the power of games for learning, growing, and connecting using our game design studio process, which engages teens in self-reflection and systems change.
When you host an iThrive Studio at your school or teen-serving organization, we partner with you to create opportunities for teens to recognize and apply their strengths while exercising their creativity in designing games and learning new ways to approach problem-solving with art, design, storytelling, and systems thinking.
CREATIVITY UNLEASHED
Our in person or virtual iThrive Studio model engages teens in using and expanding their social and emotional skills while they play, analyze, and design games.
Bringing iThrive Studio to your classroom:
- Offers teens opportunities to voice their experiences and express themselves through the art of game design
- Reinforces teens' development of design, technology, and collaborative skills
- Builds teens' social and emotional skills
- Creates an opportunity for teens to use systems thinking to understand the world and how to change the world for good
SHOW US YOUR CREATIVITY!
Amplify your voice by answering our monthly writing prompt. We'll share selected stories on our website and social media. This month's prompt: What have you learned about yourself, your community, or society as a result of COVID-19?
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Video games are a defining narrative form of this era. Our curricular approach uses them to support high school students’ academic and social-emotional learning in the classroom.
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At the core of each game-based learning tool we’ve created for HS classrooms is the Universal Design for Learning (UDL), an approach that helps us build in flexibility that accounts for teens’ diverse strengths, needs, and learning styles.
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#Socialemotionallearning steers us towards a better understanding of ourselves and each other. And students are discovering this with iThrive Curriculum: Sam’s Journey.
The three-lesson unit centers #ANormalLostPhone, an award-winning #videogame that invites players to explore the contents of a lost smartphone and uncover the story of who it belongs to. Merging play, content that aligns with #CommonCore English standards, and #SEL, the unit guides students through a meaningful and relevant game-based learning experience.
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We created iThrive Game Guides for popular games like Animal Crossing: New Horizons to support adults with SEL discussion prompts crafted to deepen connection and arm them with the know-how to grab a controller and get in the game.⠀
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Download all of them for free -- link in bio!
HOW CAN YOU GET INVOLVED?
Contact us to learn more about how to host an iThrive studio in your classroom.
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