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May Madness: GPB Gaming Speedruns

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Get ready to rumble with Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB) Education’s May Madness! For the next three days, GPB will broadcast live speedrun gaming demonstrations of their three FableVision-developed learning games: Gasha Go!, Georgia Race Through Time, and Lights, Camera, Budget!

With the school year winding down and students preparing for both final assessments and summer break, this is the perfect opportunity to enjoy GPB’s award-winning games in action as competitors pit their knowledge of numeracy, Georgia history, and financial literacy against the clock and try to uncover 24 hidden primary sources, replace 30 toys, and produce a five-star movie for the world speedrun gaming record. Teachers, parents, and students are all invited to tune in and cheer them on!


Georgia Race Through Time All Sources Speedrun

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Step into Georgia history in Georgia Race Through Time as Savannah and her dog Peaches collect historical artifacts in order to win the Georgia Race Through Time scavenger hunt. Watch GBP’s own phenomenal scholar-athlete Michael Kuenlen on his first-ever live broadcast of an All Sources Speedrun demo of the Georgia Race Through Time Game. How long will it take Mike, Savannah, and Peaches to find all 24 primary sources hidden throughout the state? Will Mike’s formative year as an 8th grade Georgia Studies student see him through the challenge? Have Mike’s 15 years as a social studies teacher honed his information processing skills enough to foil avid competitors Elan Trusk and Musty Bureaux? Tune in Wednesday at 3PM ET to find out!


Gasha Go! All Toys Speedrun

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Jump into the colorful world of an arcade game in Gasha Go!, as players use their number sense, numeracy, and literacy skills to fill a gashapon-style toy machine with toy pods. Join GPB’s early learning education Ready to Learn rockstars Ashley Payton and Kimberly Mobley as they use their numeracy superpowers in a race against the clock All Toys Speedrun demo to save the day for busy Gasha Go! arcade workers and math friends Mash, Zoom, Bazzle, Deeja, Pow, and Tuft. Can their sense of what numbers mean and how they relate to one another be enough to replenish all 30 gashapon toys before the arcade opens again in the morning? Tune in Thursday at 3PM ET to find out!


Lights, Camera, Budget! All Stars Speedrun

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Find out what it’s like to be a Hollywood producer and make your own hit film in Lights, Camera, Budget!, a financial literacy game created by FableVision Studios, Georgia Public Broadcasting, and the Georgia Council on Economic Education that teaches personal finance and budgeting skills. Join GPB Education for an hour of economic excitement with GCEE financial literacy legends Chris “Cash Commander” Cannon and Mike “Money Master” Raymer as they take on the Georgia film industry with a limited budget for their inaugural Lights, Camera, Budget! All Stars Speedrun game demo. Will Chris choose the genre of action, horror, or romantic comedy? Will his funds hold out long enough to feed the crew and complete the soundtrack? Can he navigate the perils of personal finance to produce a five-star movie in today’s exceptional economic environment? Tune in Friday at 1PM ET to find out!

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In “Gasha Go!,” Numbers Just Make More Sense

For many kids, math can be a daunting subject. And many teachers agree: without fun, engaging tools to teach math, early learners—particularly students in Kindergarten to third grade—will struggle to understand the basic foundational concepts, leading to greater struggle grasping complicated theories down the road.

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This is precisely the problem that caught the attention of Georgia Public Broadcasting’s Vice President of Education and Digital Media, Andrew MacCartney and Director of Education, Laura Evans. Georgia educators expressed concern about their students struggling with the essential concept of “number sense”—the understanding of what numbers are and how they relate to one another. Their solution? Teaming up with FableVision Studios to create GASHA GO!, a colorful, engaging, and curriculum-based math game world!

GASHA GO! is the first in an expandable series of educational games and animation all set in a vibrant, cute, character-filled arcade. GASHA GO! features Mash, the mustachioed foreman, and his friends who need your help solving math problems to refill the toy capsules inside the gashapon machine.. The different modes of play let students use numbers in different contexts, such as word problems and counting. FableVision also created an original animated song arranged by Junior Joe about number sense and numeracy featuring the same lovable characters from GASHA GO! The video can be played separately or in tandem with the game.

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Feedback and user-testing were essential in building this game. Two K-3 math teachers consulted as GPB’s experts, and provided insight on how these standards are taught in the classroom—and how they felt technology could be used to convey the lessons. Georgia first and second graders voted on their favorite character designs and suggested names. While we couldn’t accept all suggestions (sorry, “Chicken Master” and “Mr. Taco”), getting feedback from the students ensured we made something they would enjoy playing.

With characters so cute, they had to play an instrumental role in the hit song, Numbers: They Make Sense!To help both parents and children get a high-level view of number sense and help round out the toy world, FableVision cooked up a short, catchy animated music video and song that was bound to be on repeat in your head! Written by in-house FableVision lyricist and Creative Director, Leigh Hallisey, the words and images in the music video demonstrated the many places you might find numbers, and the different ways the same number might look. By embedding this content into an energetic, fun music video filled with cute, dancing characters, math that was once daunting and confusing became colorful and engaging.

The rest of the arcade is currently under construction, getting ready for more games to join the universe. But in the meantime, leave your flashcards at home. Grab your tokens and tickets instead!



For More On Immersive Learning,
Join GPB and FableVision at SXSW EDU! 

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Join FableVision’s Peter Stidwill and Georgia Public Broadcasting’s Andrew MacCartney and Laura Evans as they discuss the intricacies and production process behind the award-winning Georgia Race Through Time game at SXSW EDU!

What: Immersive Learning: Teaching History Through GBL
When: March 5 at 12:30 p.m.
Where: Room 17B, Austin Convention Center

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