Creating educational video games using AI (1 week in Corfu)

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Dates

2027: 19.04.2027 – 24.04.2027 | 10.05.2027 – 15.05.2027 | 07.06.2027 – 12.06.2027 | 26.07.2027 – 31.07.2027 | 09.08.2027 – 14.08.2027 | 06.09.2027 – 11.09.2027 | 04.10.2027 – 09.10.2027

2028: To be announced (Ask for dates)

Intro

“Creating educational video games using AI” is a practical course designed to help you bring learning to life through simple, familiar gaming experiences.

Using user-friendly AI tools and everyday language, you will learn how to turn your ideas into custom educational games inspired by classic arcade and console favorites – from maze games to paddle tennis and side-scrolling platformers.

No technical background required! Step into the role of a creator, inspire your students, and discover how easy and fun digital game design can be!

Who is this for?

This course is tailored for youth workers, cultural activity creators, and educators of all levels and subjects – including primary, secondary, and higher education teachers, school leaders, etc. – who want to bring simple digital games into their teaching.

No prior coding or technical experience is required – just curiosity and a willingness to try something new.

Objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Understand AI in education: Learn how simple AI tools work and how they can be used to make learning interactive and fun.
• Plan custom classroom games: Design structured game concepts using simple planning templates before generating them.
• Guide AI tools with clear prompts: Master plain-language instructions to easily communicate your game rules and ideas to AI.
• Build working mini-games: Create custom educational games (such as maze quizzes or games where players jump, run, and navigate obstacles across levels) aligned with your subject and lessons.
• Enhance subject teaching: Integrate game-based activities into your curriculum to boost student motivation across any subject.
• Test and tweak games easily: Playtest your creations and refine them by giving simple feedback to the AI tool.
• Foster creative collaboration: Build a supportive, low-stress environment where students can test each other’s games and solve problems together.
• Promote responsible AI use: Explore simple, practical strategies for using AI safely and ethically in school settings.

Modules and Course Schedule

• Module 1: Introduction to AI & game design. Discover how simple AI tools can help build classroom games, explore classic game mechanics, and see how games enhance student learning.
• Module 2: Talking to AI & creative planning. Learn how to use everyday language to give clear instructions to AI tools, using AI as a partner to outline rules, characters, and learning activities.
• Module 3: Adapting classic game styles. Explore popular game formats – like block puzzles, maze games, paddle tennis, and side-scrolling platformers – and customize them for science, history, languages, or math.
• Module 4: Hands-on game creation workshop. Put your ideas into practice by generating working classroom games with AI. Playtest your creations, tweak them with simple feedback, and build your confidence.
• Module 5: Classroom arcade & institution integration. Showcase and playtest your games in a fun classroom arcade session. Share practical strategies for running gaming activities in your school and fostering a creative learning culture.

Course Outcomes

• Build a ready-to-use game portfolio: Walk away with a personalized collection of working digital games ready to use in your classroom immediately.
• Develop theoretical and practical AI literacy: Build hands-on AI skills that enable you to cultivate a healthy, responsible, and safe AI usage culture back in your institution.
• Drive digital transformation: Gain total confidence in using modern digital tools, overcoming technical barriers to support digital innovation in your institution.
• Boost engagement across subjects: Learn how to use familiar game formats to make core curriculum subjects exciting, inclusive, and memorable.
• Empower youth as digital creators: Gain strategies to help your students shift from passive screen users to active, creative, and responsible builders.
• Exchange European best practices: Connect and collaborate with an international network of European educators, sharing innovative strategies and building lasting cross-border partnerships.

Equipment

Participants will need to bring their laptop (not a tablet) so that relevant web-based AI tools can be utilized effectively during the course.

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Destination:

Corfu is a beautiful green island, which enjoys a mild Mediterranean climate. Corfu is a very popular tourist destination. Up until the early 20th century, it was mainly visited by the European royals and elites. It is still popular with the global elite. The island’s history is laden with battles and conquests. Corfu was long controlled by Venice and repulsed several Turkish sieges, before falling under British rule following the Napoleonic Wars. Corfu was eventually ceded by the British Empire along with the remaining islands of the United States of the Ionian Islands, and unification with modern Greece was concluded in 1864 under the Treaty of London. Corfu is renowned for its long tradition and rich culture which is unlike any other Greek island. In 2007, the city’s old city was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage site. Here you will also discover a compact world of beautiful beaches and stunning mountain peaks, ancient ruins and picturesque villages. There is something for everyone on the island, whether you prefer peace and quiet or a lively cosmopolitan destination.