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Curriculum Developer and Organizer

Alterea
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About the Company & Project

We are Alterea Inc., an experience design company based in Los Angeles, CA. Through live and digital mediums we create experiences that draw on historical research and emerging art forms to explore and highlight participant agency. Our core team met as undergraduates at the University of Southern California designing experiences that combined immersive theater and interactive gaming.

Agents of Influence is an in-development educational video game to teach students media literacy skills including research, analysis and how to have good conversations. We are seeking an educational intern to help organize educational resources and help develop a system for in-game feedback and build curriculum around the game for easy classroom integration. Background in teaching, data organization, curriculum development or building information systems is ideal. Experience playing or designing games is a bonus. This person will get detailed insight into the high level operation and decision making of a gaming start up. This is a part-time remote unpaid internship with the potential for increased responsibility and pay based on performance.

Job Summary

This role focuses on designing and implementing tagging systems and educational features for the SPAM Feature and Field Guide, ensuring they align with game mechanics and enhance player learning. By collaborating with educators, game studios, and internal teams, the position ensures that curriculum materials and teacher resources support classroom use across subjects and grade levels. The role is central to integrating educational goals with gameplay, creating impactful learning pathways, and aligning content with standards and assessments.

 

Internship Period: from JAN 20, 2024 to MAY 30, 2024

Application Deadline: JAN 10, 2024

Introductory Video (please view!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u97XriYhB0

Apply here: https://forms.gle/kDGcGvgbKYDRKp8T9

 

Location and Work Environment

This is a fully remote position, allowing you the flexibility to work from home or another suitable location. To succeed in this role, you’ll need:

  • Reliable Internet Connection: A stable high-speed internet connection (minimum 20 Mbps) is required for video conferencing and accessing company tools.
  • Equipment: You should have access to a reliable computer with a webcam and a headset. If needed, the company can provide additional equipment to support your work.
  • Workspace: A quiet, distraction-free workspace is essential for meetings and focused work.

Key Responsibilities

Responsibilities of the Curriculum Intern includes:

  • Collaborate with the education, creative, and production teams to design, implement, and refine an effective tagging system, ensuring alignment with game mechanics and educational goals.
  • Select and tag materials, creating a searchable database of resources categorized by content, type, and game relevance to enhance learning experiences.
  • Contribute conceptual ideas to the system and potentially the user interface.
  • Working with our game studio partners to ensure the educational features are effectively executed through the creation of relevant documents.
  • Working with the business and research team, to build appropriate curriculum and teacher resources. This also includes selecting content across subjects to include in game depending on the standards they relate to and the assessments the content would support. 
  • Working with educators to build and test materials they would like to support Agents of Influence in a variety of classrooms ranging from ELA to CTE.
  • Build ‘pathways’ for teachers to use Agents of Influence based on time, subject and grade.
  • Attend meetings led by the Producer

 

Compensation and Benefits

This is an unpaid internship. There is potential to grow into a paid role.

You will receive access to a Curriculum Development Course through Education Forever, Lily Jones LLC worth $700 if selected.

 

Application Instructions

Internship Period: from JAN 20, 2024 to MAY 30, 2024

Application Deadline: JAN 10, 2024

Introductory Video (please view!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u97XriYhB0

Apply here: https://forms.gle/kDGcGvgbKYDRKp8T9

 

Additional Project Overview and Details:

Agents of Influence Project Overview

Teacher Guide and Demo: 

 

Link to the Game: https://www.agentsofinfluencegame.com/AoiWIP/ (Username test@123.com, Password: test1234)

 

Further Opportunities

  • Operations and Strategy Intern
    • The role of the Operations and Strategy Intern is largely to be a flexible person in our team we can count on to fulfill a number of varied tasks. You don't need to be an expert in all of these things, but we prioritize the ability to quickly learn, be detail-oriented, and implement. Our ideal candidate wants to grow into an Operations Role at a startup.
  • Business Development and Marketing Intern
    • The role of the Business Development and Marketing intern is to support building a commercialization strategy for Agents of Influence and help implement strategies to determine the effectiveness of these strategies. This will include work on building partnerships, finding exhibiting opportunities, writing articles, social media strategy and designing posts and updating the website.