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RP4K Teacher Profiles: Gabriel Dibenedetto

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Education and Background Gabe has worked for RP4K almost since moving to Ontario from Italy in 2017. His passion for gaming is broad, but he has a special love for sandbox games , point-and-click graphic adventures, and RPGs. Soon after, Gabe graduated from Georgian College with an Ontario College Diploma.

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How to Keep Kids Motivated for Coding as School Resumes

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Whereas previous generations played pinball at the arcade, or side-scrolling Nintendo games , the video games our teachers played as kids resemble the open-world sandbox games popular today, like Minecraft. RP4K begins at the start, diving into real math and coding concepts to build a custom video game that even young kids can manage.

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We Dwell in Possibility as queer gardening simulation

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In her excellent book Narrative As Virtual Reality , Marie-Laure Ryan outlines some common understandings of virtual: virtual as "digital": inspired by computer concepts like virtual memory. There are "sims" like SimCity, which seek to be taken semi-seriously as semi-scientific primers to urban planning for educational use in schools.