Career profile: Phoebe Watson Indigenous game designer
This poster can be used to inspire students to consider game design as a career opportunity. Phoebe Watson, an Indigenous game designer, shares her day-to-day role, her personal interests and the pathway she has taken to be a game designer.
Refer to these two lessons, Designing a mini-game or Designing a mini-game with variables to help students develop their skills and knowledge in programming using a game design context.
Additional details
| Year band(s) | 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 9-10 |
|---|---|
| Content type | Careers |
| Format | Document |
| Australian Curriculum Digital Technologies code(s) |
AC9TDI4P04
Implement simple algorithms as visual programs involving control structures and input
AC9TDI6P05
Implement algorithms as visual programs involving control structures, variables and input
AC9TDI8P09
Implement, modify and debug programs involving control structures and functions in a general-purpose programming language
AC9TDI10P09
Implement, modify and debug modular programs, applying selected algorithms and data structures, including in an object-oriented programming language |
| Keywords | STEM Careers, gamification, role model, Indigenous, coding |
| Integrated, cross-curriculum, special needs | Girls in Tech, STEM |
| Organisation | ESA |
| Copyright | Creative Commons BY 4.0 |
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