Teacher Talk Game

We are exploring the emerging phenomenon of open-innovation that taps crowd-sourcing collaboration and fund-raising to help stimulate the innovation process for worthy causes. We are currently creating an interactive game based training series on the works of Dr. Martin Haberman and the Haberman Education Foundation. The purpose of the game is to give new teachers a fighting chance to practice engage challenging students virtually before they make mistakes on real students that could destroy a child’s enthusiasm for learning and cut short a teacher’s career.

The game uses theories of InterPLAY developed by Christopher Stapleton and Dr. Astusi Hirum to address the psychological needs of students in difficult classrooms.

Concept Art

As a mobile social micro-game, the player will be able to interact with the classroom as a whole, or with individual students. The player will be able to influence the classroom behavior as a whole, or escalate or deescalate individual students reactions.