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Wednesday, July 14 • 11:00am - 11:50am
Discovery Tour: A Good Tour Is Nothing Without a Good Guide!

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Educators are often attracted by using Games for Learning but don't always know where to start! We'll discuss why and how creating supporting tools and guides are crucial in helping people from education make the best of video-games as a learning tool, taking the example of the Discovery Tours by Ubisoft!

Moderators
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Maxime Durand

World Design Director, Ubisoft Montreal
Maxime began his career directly at Ubisoft Montreal as a historian supporting game productions, providing teams with his expertise in history, archeology and popularization of science. He was involved in the Assassin's Creed series highlighting various historical periods for the... Read More →

Speakers
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Adam Dubé

Associate Professor / Director of the Learning Sciences Program, McGill University
Adam Kenneth Dubé is an Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director for the Learning Sciences Program in the Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology, the McGill Faculty of Education’s 2020 Distinguished Teacher award recipient, the head of the Technology, Learning... Read More →
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Jose Luis Vazquez-Poletti

Associate Professor, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Jose Luis Vazquez-Poletti is an associate professor at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, where he is also the Head of the Open Source Software and Open Technologies Office. He is also both a Coordinator of the Ethical Hacking Group and Co-Founder of the eSports association of the... Read More →
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Judith Brisson

History Teacher, Collège Jean de la Mennais
For the last 20 years, Mrs. Brisson has been teaching History in Quebec. Her many projects aim to develop her students’ interest in history. Mrs. Brisson’s latest project is the use of video games to better engage students in the understanding of the birth of democracy in Ancient... Read More →


Wednesday July 14, 2021 11:00am - 11:50am EDT
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