An Italian Pilot Experience in Game Making for Learning

This case study draws on a pilot experience investigating learners' digital game making as an educational strategy for adoption in schools. It was one of a series of classroom pilots run within an EC project called MAGICAL - Making Games in Collaboration for Learning . The main research aim of MAGICAL and of the reported pilot was to investigate the viability and educational added value of digital game making, especially for supporting transversal 21st century skills such as collaboration, creativity, problem solving and ICT literacy.